If America wants to continue to reap the economic rewards of increased oil and natural gas production, we must eliminate the red tape and other barriers that continue to lock up the vast resources of our Federal lands and waters.

As long as American's hard-earned dollars are funding terrorists and petrol dictators, we must fight to open and develop our domestic resources, and that fight is not over.

Our focus should remain on creating American jobs and producing American resources for American consumers.

Isn't it really true, and this is how it appears to many of us, that the original contractor was fired because the loss of 7,000 jobs is politically damaging?

Well, it appears that Director Pizarchik was either incompetent in not understanding the word 'placeholder,' at best, or he changed his tune over time to fit a political narrative, resulting in misleading testimony to Congress, at worst.

Isn't the fact that a senior political appointee may not have provided accurate information to Congress something serious that the Inspector General's office should look into?

I have a suspicion that some people in the environmental community are really more after grabbing the habitat.

I thank Representative Peter Roskam, a leader on the U.S.-Israel relationship here in Congress. He and I are two of the cochairs of the Republican Israel Caucus. I share with many colleagues on both sides of the aisle deep concern over the…

H.R. 1604, the 'Map It Once, Use It Many Times Act', introduced by Representative Lamborn, would establish the National Geospatial Technology Administration.

Today we are holding a legislative hearing on two bills aimed at reducing Federal bureaucracies and streamlining Government inefficiencies in Federal land management.

I thank the gentleman from Utah. Mr. Speaker, I want to respond to my colleague from Colorado who has raised some concerns about the issue of hydraulic fracturing. And we all agree. There is a place for reasonable regulation; there is a…

Just to conclude, when you put things in perspective, I think that there were a lot more serious issues with the flooding, some of which continue to today and will continue far into the future. Those are the issues we should really…

I thank the chairman of the committee, Doc Hastings. I rise in strong support of H.R. 1965, the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, which incorporates four additional bills into my bill. This legislation takes significant steps…

I thank the full committee chairman for yielding me this time. I want to applaud and commend my colleague from Colorado for his concern and thoughtfulness to the people impacted in Colorado, many of which were in his and Representative…

There is a place to talk about reasonable regulation that has to be in place for the drilling process, for the capture of gas, and for how to treat the water that comes back up from a fractured well. Yes, let's look at those things; and…

I thank the gentlelady from Missouri. I know that she is a leader on military issues. We serve together on the Armed Services Committee, and she is becoming known as a leader on military issues. Her passion on religious freedom is also…

My office has been flooded with constituents calling to share their Obama horror story. Take Nicole Butler, for instance, a constituent of mine living in Colorado Springs and a mother of three children. Her family's Humana insurance plan…

I think it is outrageous that our veterans were not allowed.

Americans deserve better from the EPA. There is no excuse for conducting armed raids on family owned businesses to look for minor permit violations.

At the heart of this issue is the lack of confidence in permitting by the Federal Government.

It is blatant gamesmanship, and that is why I have to ask the question.

This hearing is about the story of how one agency, the Obama administration's EPA, can single-handedly decide to retroactively pull permits or prospectively veto any operations in areas the size of States.

I think it should have been 100 percent, and it should not have taken so long.

If you really believe in the people, start thinking about the little people. And shame on you if you don't.

It has been said by someone within the agency that the EPA's job is to crucify American industry, to bring them to heel.