We learned, the reason this isn't happening is solely because federal regulations have made it economically infeasible to do so.

These types of nonsensical regulations create man-made shortages, which in turn lead to high unemployment and increased water, energy, and food prices and unnecessary taxpayer spending.

The NEPA process is timely, and it is expensive. It is also uncertain.

H.R. 2915 would repeal Western's borrowing authority to build electric transmission under section 301 of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984.

I am not providing testimony, Mr. Baca.

Well, Mr. Tipton has already pointed out 1400 megawatts, the capacity of a Glen Canyon Dam, just in Colorado alone.

The EPA sets a tolerance level at 24.5 parts per billion. The State of California...is at six parts per billion.

This measure has gone through the Subcommittee, and was passed by the House Natural Resource's Committee in the One Hundred and Eleventh Congress by bipartisan support.

The Antiquities Act was meant, in 1906, solely to protect open archeological digs from looting.

That sound anemic to me.

There is an enormous lead time from lease to development to production.

Is there any way for us to honor the commitments we have made to everybody in the Social Security system, and yet move that system to an actuarially sound foundation?