Thank you, Chair Hageman, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

Password is bad; passphrase is better; MFA best.

Time and again, the Biden administration has proven that they would rather use a sledge hammer than a scalpel.

No one is suggesting that right whales do not deserve protection. However, there are alternatives to shutting down the entire East Coast.

Thank you to the witnesses.

This hearing goes much deeper and gets into the core of a problem in our system of government today, and that is where we have bureaucrats who are making laws that Congress never made.

I thank Chairman Newhouse not only for his leadership here tonight in setting up the Special Order but also his leadership on the Western Caucus, which is a voice for us on not just Western issues but rural issues all across the country. I…

There is a proper time and place for fire, but it is not when your forests are overgrown, overstocked, dried out, and bug-infested.

It is a great example of how you can have a healthy environment and a strong economy at the same time.

When we are in a world where we are wanting more carbon-free electricity on the grid, it seems to me that we would be trying to get every ounce of energy out of these hydro dams that we could.

I am a huge supporter of more Good Neighbor Authority.

We talked about using clean American energy, we talked about permitting reform so that we could build new distribution systems.