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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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.

You appear to have become an active obstacle to developing them to the sustainable prosperity of our Nation.

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

We have had much more intense forest fires over the past few years in my neck of the woods specifically because of the failure of the Forest Service to provide the sound forest management practices that were employed in 1980 when we were…