We produce energy with less emissions, cleaner, and safer on our facilities than we do anywhere else.

We can have clean energy. We produce energy cleaner in America than anyplace else in the world.

It takes an absolutely unreasonable amount of time to mine here in the United States.

America needs permitting reform, whether it be for the burgeoning offshore wind industry, building transmission lines to upgrade our energy grid, solar fields on Federal lands, geothermal steam projects, mining proposals, or oil and gas…

I want to work across the aisle with my colleagues, because I want to do what is best for our country, what is best, really, for the entire planet.

It is because of the paralysis through the permitting system.

I challenge us to work together to come to some kind of reform, so that we can actually get things done.

It is baffling that many of my Democratic colleagues seem content to let the status quo choke out American innovation and ingenuity.

Our constituents are paying the price of bad policies that result in high energy prices.

Yes. We have--tradition has been we divide the resources up two-thirds and one-third, and that is the plan to do that going forward.

It is always a challenge when you are dealing with the issues that we are talking about inside a building here in D.C. to see the real effect that is happening out in the real world.

We do intend to use that like we did on the first field hearing that we did.

I do recognize the challenging task that you have in allocating resources among committees and appreciate the opportunity to make the case for the Natural Resources Committee.

Those actions don't exactly promote investor confidence.

We are going to write legislation, and we are going to pass that out of House and hopefully work in a bipartisan manner.

It shouldn't require Congress having to have hearings and pass laws to do the right thing.

It is wrong. It is misguided, and it is time we hold them accountable.

We have a long ways to go to make sure that America is energy independent, that we are not relying on foreign allies, or foreign adversaries.