I believe in American energy resources, I believe in solving our energy independence through offshore/onshore deepwater GOM, deepwater Alaska, onshore on Federal lands, natural gas production, fracking, everything we can do to meet our…

The Secretary of the Interior sat right where you are sitting a couple of weeks ago, admitted that they still don't know the cause of the catastrophic failure of the blowout preventer, which I find absolutely stunning, and a result of the…

There is a de facto moratorium, and it is affecting energy production, and it is definitely affecting the economies in Louisiana.

The gentleman from New Mexico seems to argue that that one bad actor, BP, required the imposition of the moratorium.

So, to borrow from the Clinton Administration, with obvious apologies, it is the 'spending, stupid.'

Aren't they really the same thing? Isn't the deficit is simply a future tax?

Cut spending four percent. Now, George W. Bush takes office, and ends up increasing federal spending by a full two percent of GDP.

The clear pattern is one of closing off our national forests to the public.

Again, overpopulation is an unhealthy condition for any living community, be it timber or animal populations.

With all due respect, I have hundreds of sawmill families that are out of work today because of your policies. I would call that a distress.

According to the McKenzie report, 2 billion barrels of oil is off limits to exploration and production in the Rocky Mountain region alone.

So the dramatic reduction in the public's access to the public's land is actually to help them have better access to the land. Is that the logic you are offering us?