"Healthy, productive lands and forests are an investment that will pay dividends long after our current challenges have been solved."
"the oil and gas industry, it conducts its inventory when it comes in through the process for permitting based on what they, as an entity, see as a viable source of energy for them, oil and gas."
"There appears to be an upswing in the number of proposed mining projects on public lands in southern Arizona."
"We need to permit this use. We need to have this extraction done. It is good for the economy--don't deny that--and energy."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Let us talk a little bit about 'oil above all' policy in terms of extraction, not just all of the above."
"I think there has to be an accountability issue to these leaseholders, and I don't see it."
"I would hope that we, in America, can create the gold standard for safe oil and gas production in the oceans of this world."
"I hope that struggle doesn't become an opportunity to shield, for the oil and gas industry to go back to some unregulated winner take all policy."
"it is a modest investment in the future of America because the dollars that we are putting in to buying in holdings and connecting up wildlife corridors and the rest of the things to get American peop..."
"the request that we have in the President's budget for offshore oil and gas activities for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are essential for us to move forward with the robust oil and gas permit..."
"Gentlemen, if the current offshore policy is based on some similar assumptions... don't we have to rewrite our offshore policy?"