The EPA is forcing electric vehicles upon Americans by using a tailpipe emissions rule designed to phase out vehicles with internal combustion engines. In so doing, the EPA imposes an unwise restrictive policy and eliminates consumer…

Our Nation's security is at risk. This is due to the Biden administration's failure to secure our southern border. Since he took office, over 6.4 million illegal immigrants have entered our country from the South. There are at least 279 on…

H.R. 6285 very rightfully puts some sanity back into the energy policy in Alaska, and empowers some of our locals.

Under the leadership of President Biden, the world is in chaos. Failures in Afghanistan, the escalation in Russia, embrace of Iran, and kowtowing to the Chinese are all examples of his foreign policy legacy on this world. When President…

Congress has taken an approach to managing our forests that has not yielded results.

Thank you to my seatmate, Congressman Simpson, for his overall work on this larger appropriations package. It is not a simple thing to do right now. My amendment will restrict funds to implement section 216 of Executive Order No. 14008…

I point out that the amount of federally controlled lands is nowhere equal across our country. In Idaho, it is 32.8 million acres, and, to my good friend from Maine, it is 301,000. You can't possibly contemplate the ramifications that has…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ___. None of the funds made…

I have more questions than I am going to have time for, but I want to fact check my staff because when I was reading through and going through the data in presenting this bill...

The bill I am introducing is H.R. 1449, Committing Leases for Energy Access Now, or the CLEAN Act.

Geothermal is proven clean and efficient, and it provides baseload, reliable power to residents in rural areas.

Because your company has done, I assume, projects both on Federal land and probably on private or state land.

Securing American energy independence should be a top priority for Congress.

We applaud Representative Fulcher for his introduction of H.R. 1449, the CLEAN Act, and for his continued leadership on geothermal energy.

For a Federal lease, we are going to have to nominate that parcel, and then we are going to have to wait for that state to offer a lease sale.

I want to thank all the witnesses for their testimony and for everyone in the room for being with us today.

Before I do, Mr. Soto, I think you just explained why maybe we have a $33.6 trillion debt. It is that giant sinkhole. All the money is going in there. That must be what it is.

Thank you very much.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to introduce this bill, and I thank the Committee for holding this hearing today.

I can only imagine the drastic impact on states closer in proximity.

New York has some geography between it and the southern border, and so does my home state of Idaho.

Not only does it violate your sovereignty, but it, certainly in my opinion, placates the problem we have on the southern border.

We need to get it together on the border where it starts.

Whether we like it or not we are in a war, and we are in a war on the southern border with the cartels.

I appreciate your leadership in taking the right step in Natural Resources.