John Shimkus actually said...

It has the fewest proposed number of lease sales ever submitted by an administration, going back to President Carter.

Shimkus criticizes the administration's proposed OCS leasing plan for its low number of lease sales.

08/01/2012

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There was a huge rally in deep southern Illinois over the weekend to protect and save coalmining jobs in the country.

We, as authorizers, also really dislike public policy created through spending authority versus authorization.

I do agree, I find the work of the GAO very helpful to us as public policy folks.

Let's just take a look at it, write an authorization, get bipartisan support, clean it up.