This bill was signed into law about a year ago, almost a year ago. It includes over 400 pages of text.

Implementation is everything. Part of our job is to make sure that the laws we've already passed are being implemented as intended.

All of this is for naught if the FAA doesn't do what we directed them to do in the first place.

I was absent during the first series of votes on September 25 due to illness. Had I been present, I would have voted nay on rollcall No. 542, and nay on rollcall No. 543. ____________________

I want to thank the Representative from Alaska for yielding me the time. I want to say it again. I want to thank the gentleman from Alaska, the sole Member representing all Alaskans in the House of Representatives, who joins with his…

I thank Mr. Young for yielding me more time. This is going to result in greater dependence on imports of energy. We have seen it over and over again. We had career officials sit right in front of us in the Natural Resources Committee and…

We sat here for hours talking about the objectives of legislation to impose a moratorium on offshore energy production. I have heard the advocates for the legislation talk about the objectives of protecting our environment and preventing…

I also heard talk about the Land and Conservation Water Fund and, yes, the irony of the fact that there is legislation that the chair pushed that permanently authorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Legislation moving it…

I am in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Graves of Louisiana moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1941, to the Committee on Natural Resources with…

I thank the ranking member for the recognition to talk about this legislation. Madam Chair, we are talking about legislation that has to do with energy policy and energy production. We are talking about the goals here, as I heard different…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. This is a…

I appreciate the gentleman's statement about energy production today. I want to remind the gentleman, Mr. Speaker, that as we produce energy, we are extracting something. Therefore, new development in these areas is necessary in order to…

I thank the gentlewoman for the time. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to talk about energy policy; we are here today to talk about jobs and national security; and we are here today to talk about the environment and climate change. We have…

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I also want to thank Mr. Neguse and those of you that had the opportunity to come to Colorado.

This place is going to be absolutely key in solving the problem, and what I mean by that is the experts, the facilities, the scientists that you have here, the innovation, the moon shot that the Chair just talked about.

We can cut every bit of emissions, every single bit of emissions from the United States today, everything, and it is not going to change the trajectory of warming.

I want to thank all of you for being here to participate in your government. This is what the United States looks like.

In 2011, the year after the BP disaster, one-half of this nation's trade deficit, one-half of the entire trade deficit, was attributable to us importing energy from other countries.

It doesn't matter if you are Republican, Democrat, green, purple, blue, white, whatever. When your land is being taken, when your home is going underwater, when your business is going underwater, when your history, your culture is going…

I want to thank you very much for hosting this today. Congressman Casten, thanks for coming.

I think I read recently where gas that comes from the United States as compared to Russia is 13 percent cleaner.

We talk often about reducing emissions, which is, of course, an objective I think we all share.

Let me say it again: We have increased our dependence upon oil from Saudi Arabia.

If we come in and say, hey, we are going to just stop producing, it doesn't stop demand because you have a system that continue to be dependent upon these energy streams.

We have lost 2,000 square miles of our state, 2,000.