Cory Gardner: “We had a discussion on this very issue in the Energy and Commerce Committee, and we made very clear that the language…”

“We had a discussion on this very issue in the Energy and Commerce Committee, and we made very clear that the language dealing with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve did not affect existing land management policies or management policies, or those policies in place to protect our resources. So, again, we actually adopted an amendment by Chairman Dingell, the gentleman from Michigan, the chairman emeritus, to make sure that we restated that this does not change or affect our Federal land management policies and those intended to protect our Federal resources. So we made that clear in the Energy and Commerce provisions in this bill as well.”