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 American people for the oil and gas they are producing or not producing from publicly owned lands.
Speier criticizes the Department of Interior for failing to collect owed revenues from oil and gas companies.
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This is so egregious. And I think the American people need to sit back for a moment and think about as something like that happened in their home, how would they feel their sanctuary.
I'm not going to sugarcoat this. This is a scandal, and it's one that each and every one of you need to take ownership of.
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