Alan Lowenthal

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.

There's little doubt that next month's elections are going to be a sham.

I rise as the designee of Mr. Beyer to offer an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 62, beginning on line 16, strike section 505. The Acting CHAIR…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 32 Offered by Mr. Kihuen The Acting CHAIR. It is…

This amendment preserves the National Ocean Policy. The National Ocean Policy is a commonsense way to facilitate multistakeholder collaboration on complex ocean issues, and it promotes economic opportunity, national security, and…

It is unconscionable that the Venerable--the Supreme Patriarch is kept in jail or at least under house arrest now.

I've advocated in Congress on the issue of the human rights abuses in Vietnam.

Mr. Nguyen is one of my current prisoners of conscience.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for all attending and I thank also the chairman, Chairman Smith, for inviting me to participate.

It imposes, among other things, it would invoke sanctions per the Magnitsky Act.

So, it is fair to say that if BLM doesn't look at extraordinary circumstances, there is more of an analysis in installing a stop sign than in drilling an oil well.

One of the foundational principles of NEPA is involving the public in government decisions.

I am not too sympathetic about the 800 pending permits when there are roughly twice that many approved ones that are already out there just waiting to be used.

Unfortunately, these bills don't reflect that, and I believe they should be sent back to the drawing board.

Basically, because none of us is as smart as all of us, and when we get people to the table and working through the process, projects get better.

But that ability is under attack.

Simply put, that theme is: let the industry do whatever it wants and keep the public in the dark.

These bills are effectively providing an incentive for oil and gas companies to do more damage to our public lands.

The Trump administration is relentlessly trying to remove anything that might be a burden to the oil and gas industry.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nevada will be postponed. Amendment No. 10 Offered by Mr. McGovern The Acting CHAIR. It is…

In response to our questions, FMCSA replied that, since the coercion rule went into effect in 2016, only one carrier has been fined for a violation of the rules.

You know, I come from Washington after serving in the California Legislature, and sometimes I feel that we spend more time here talking about California's labor laws than we did, actually, in California talking about California.

Because that is really a critical--you know, because those goods are going across State lines, ultimately, and coming from foreign----

Endangered salmon are not the only species that H.R. 3144 puts at risk. By removing critical protections for salmon runs, this bill would also push one of our most treasured whale species closer to extinction. As pointed out by…

We cannot do away with this, one of the central tools for protecting public health.