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Garret Graves

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Garret Graves is a U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district, serving since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Graves has focused on issues related to infrastructure, disaster recovery, and environmental policy. He has played a significant role in advocating for federal support for Louisiana's coastal restoration efforts and has worked on legislation aimed at improving the state's infrastructure resilience against natural disasters.

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Jan 19, 2022

To suggest that this activity is racist is just--it is not factual and it is very concerning.

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Jan 11, 2022

These are the types of projects that I think give the Corps of Engineers a bad name. They must be prioritized and move forward.

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Dec 8, 2021

The Biden Department of Energy just released a report looking at several energy future models.

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Dec 8, 2021

If you decrease supply by pausing through an executive order exploration and production activity, you are decreasing supply but you don't have a corresponding decrease in demand, what happens?

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Dec 8, 2021

So if the Build Back Better Act imposes a tax of $10,000 a mile a year for pipelines, that is an increased cost.

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Dec 8, 2021

Why in the world would we disincentivize domestic energy production, domestic jobs, domestic economic activity, and yet incentivize Vladimir Putin to do it?

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Dec 8, 2021

We have to have the holistic comprehensive strategy. If we are going to build the wind and solar, we also have to be committed to doing the things we need to build the transmission.

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Nov 17, 2021

Environmental justice should also be a consideration in the development of policies and approaches to addressing climate change overall.

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Nov 17, 2021

It is critically important that all nations, including the United States and China, work to reduce emissions globally in order to mitigate Climate Change impacts.

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Nov 17, 2021

We encourage the committee members, participants and other stakeholders to be open to new ideas and technologies...

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Nov 17, 2021

The Biden administration ignored the Navajo Tribe whenever they asked for an appropriate buffer, and they put a ban in place.

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Nov 17, 2021

So, Mr. Chairman, it sounds like you all have your own process where you review, kind of, from beginning to end and look at it and determine, just holistically, if this is the right move for the Tribe.

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Nov 17, 2021

If the administration comes in and tries to prohibit or stop Tribes from producing conventional fuels, what does that do to the Southern Ute?

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Nov 17, 2021

You know, the United States is--we are leading the world in reducing emissions and doing it in an affordable way, benefiting our Tribal communities, benefiting Americans across the entire nation, across all of our states and our…

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Nov 17, 2021

Let me say it again: American resources, natural gas--right there, Tribal resources, natural gas, zero emissions, affordable electricity, baseload power put onto the grid.

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Nov 15, 2021

As I understand, the bill goes to great lengths to make it clear that shrimp are not subject to the restrictions in the legislation.

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Nov 11, 2021

We`ve watched our own president Madam Chair, shut down Keystone Pipeline, open up Nord Stream 2 pipeline, shut down domestic energy production.

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Oct 27, 2021

This is absolutely, positively the result of actions and inactions of this administration.

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Oct 27, 2021

I share the Chair's objective of moving in a direction of even lower emissions and clean energy transition.

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Oct 27, 2021

I want to first just point out, Madam Chair, that I am going to take a guess that every single person that came to Washington this week, that they came here using some form of fossil fuel.

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Oct 20, 2021

I was the only member on the climate committee available to preside over a hearing during this vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 322. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Baird…

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Oct 20, 2021

It is important that we learn from the FAA, we hear from the FAA how all of the steps that occurred with the MAX will never occur again.

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Oct 20, 2021

It is about ensuring that the FAA, using their administrative authorities, that they step up and make changes to their policies.

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Oct 20, 2021

This is about making reforms, both administratively and in law. And this is about us holding folks accountable.

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Oct 20, 2021

Fact Sheet Titled 'FAA Document Confirms It Wasn't The Pilots.'

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