I think getting more clearances, having a more unified system for sharing of information would be very beneficial.

I know that I have been to at least one utility in Ohio's command center where they are doing just that...

I am going to ask a little bit more about information sharing.

I think, instead, that we need a much more nimble approach to deal with cyber-related threats that are constantly growing and always changing.

I have joined with a number of other Ranking Member colleagues to introduce, what we're calling, the Secure IT Act.

I am very hopeful that as a consequence of what has been shared today we will have an accelerated process to identify the priorities in a way that the State, through the AOGCC, is satisfied, that the BLM recognizes that there is an…

It is literally taking an Act of Congress to get the Department of Interior, to get BLM to step up to its responsibility.

It goes to kind of the double standard that Senator Manchin has spoken to.

This hypocrisy outrages Alaskans and should outrage all Americans.

I might be more sympathetic if you hadn't received $9.4 billion from the lease sales within the NPRA.

Why the discrepancy--the very wide discrepancy between the two?

Allowing these unsafe and unsightly wells to litter Alaska's wilderness while threatening wildlife, human safety, and damaging the pristine Arctic environment is unacceptable.

I have 3 more questions, and, hopefully, these will be quick.

For the State of Alaska to consider a well plugged and abandoned, it has to meet our requirements.

If you've captured the data that is available, I can understand that.

The Federal Government is rewriting the management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve.

Only the Federal Government can get away with this.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I look forward to working with you on that one.

the fact that you don't have the data doesn't mean that you get to walk away from the responsibility.

But I don't buy into this, you know, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

I rise today to commemorate our Nation's Independence Day. Over 230 years ago, a collection of very brave and thoughtful men put their names and lives on the line to support a visionary idea, writing: We hold these truths to be…

So you've got a mandatory audit on all private buildings over a certain size?

We're not here for TV.

We would like to take that to the next level and give sort of a tenant-based Energy Star, if you will, to incentivize tenants to save energy.

I appreciate Mr. DeBoer's raising S. 1000, which Senator Portman and I have been working on for over a year.