Garret Graves

I think, just from a marine domain awareness perspective, it is important that we are actually enforcing the conditions of these work visas.

I would urge you to think for just a minute about having a level playing field, and not actually prioritizing foreign vessels and foreign crews over those of the United States.

But if we are just going to push solar and wind and what other pixie dust technology and we haven't thought through the supply chain...

By not doing it, as Mr. Schryver said, it results in higher prices, it results in funding authoritarian regimes?

If the Biden administration is even projecting that there is going to be a 50 percent global increase in energy demand, why would we not fill it domestically?

When you have a capacity constrained area, like we have seen in Massachusetts, and consumers want natural gas, because it is cleaner, it is more affordable, it is more resilient, and they can't get it, they are heating their homes…

We saw them have to get natural gas from Vladimir Putin to bring into New England.

You seem to advocate a lot of policies that have been pushed by states like California, by European nations, where you have significantly higher energy costs.

We are spending unbelievable amounts of money and we are not seeing a requisite return on investment.

The United States has led the world in reducing emissions.

Thank you for having this hearing. And this is another topic, Madam Chair, where you and I, I think, share a lot of objectives.

Support for the goals of the bill that we co-sponsored with Don Young to ban imports of Russian seafood.

The objective of this bill, of holding countries like China and Russia accountable that have some of the worst illegal fishing fleets in the world, that is unfair competition, it is overfishing, it is lack of sustainable practices, and…

In my home State of Louisiana, we have lost 2,000 square miles of our coast, 2,000.

Yet under FEMA's policies, under FMA and under BRIC, the Flood Management Assistance and the BRIC program through the predisaster mitigation dollars, the programs are participating in the White House Justice40 initiative, which I will make…

We have got to make sure we are moving forward on a merit-based approach, those that have the greatest impacts are being addressed.

That is not because of the actions of our constituents. It is largely the responsibility or actions of the Federal Government that have done that.

I am all for all of the above.

I have offered amendments over and over again to ban Russian oil, to prohibit it, and you know who has voted against it? That side of the aisle.

Your energy policy is none of the above, not all of the above.

We are going to ban drilling on public lands and fracking everywhere.

We are going to ban all oil and gas.

The facts are that under the Biden administration we saw a 161 percent increase in dependence upon Russian crude oil, number one, period.

We can sit here all day long, and I would be happy to stay here as long as you want and go through all the facts.

It is an honor to yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader of the House.