07/21/2020
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"BLM processing time has decreased. In fact, in 2006 it took 127 days; in 2011 it now takes 71 days."
"Even more importantly, we ought to be examining the Department of Interior's failure, and I underscore failure, to collect the full amount of revenues and royalties that these companies owe the Americ..."
"I think this hearing should focus on the thousands of leases for millions of acres of Federal land and water that oil and gas companies are sitting on, but not producing on."
"Let me repeat that: at high risk for waste, fraud, and abuse; precisely the kinds of issues that this committee should be focused on."