Whenever the Department comes in and they put additional steps that are hurdles in the process, you are potentially lengthening, dragging out the amount of time it takes to actually achieve that environmental objective.
Graves criticizes bureaucratic hurdles affecting the orphan well program's efficiency.
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I want to publicly thank Representative Hoyle for her work on the bill. It is a great bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Ezell).
The Federal Government used to just throw billions and billions of dollars in the aftermath of a disaster and didn't pay appropriate attention, in my opinion, on the front end of what we can do to actually avert disasters.
The reason that we purchased Alaska was largely the geography, as well as the natural resources, and the abundance of that State is profound and just critically important.
I don't have any more speakers, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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