I want to thank them for working tirelessly to bring the issues important to their districts to this committee.

I appreciate all the help that you all provided to us in coming up with the new COFA agreement.

But the relative amount of rise right now compared to 400 feet of rise and fall is hard to fathom.

This is not just a break from tradition; it is a radical pivot by Secretary Haaland and Director Klein with catastrophic repercussions for our energy future.

With fewer opportunities to lease in U.S. waters, investment will flow overseas and hostile nations will have greater influence over global energy markets.

BOEM's plan assumes a 400 percent increase in transmission capacity over the next 30 years.

The Biden administration's agenda of limiting oil and gas lease sales at all cost sets a deeply troubling precedent for American offshore access.

This monumental mis-step that is nearly 2 years late marks an unprecedented shift in offshore policies.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the late Melvin Daniel who will be posthumously inducted into the Arkansas Agricultural Hall of Fame in March. A Bismarck native, Melvin spent 37 years as an agriculture education teacher and FFA adviser…

Mr. Speaker, I rise to extend my condolences to the friends and loved ones of the Bragg family from Monticello. While visiting family in Michigan over the holiday, Hope and Don Bragg, their son Kenny and their daughter, Elizabeth, lost…

So, given that Lease Sale 261 was held on December 20, 2023, under the Inflation Reduction Act, your agency can offer offshore wind leases only until December 2024 without another oil and gas sale.