Alan Lowenthal actually said...

This discussion draft makes a clear statement: our shared public lands and waters are only worth the oil and gas that we can wring out of them.

Lowenthal emphasizes the bill's focus on oil and gas at the expense of public lands.

06/13/2018

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Thank you for the question. Dominion Energy always told us... that the gas was needed, would bring jobs and would be inevitable.

I hope in the future that we take back that message, that such important reform should be debated and discussed fully.

It is going to take a long time for a person like me and, I would think, others, to regain trust.

I ultimately ended up voting for the bill, against my local labor unions, and it was very painful.