Jeff Landry

The greatest natural resource that we have in this country is not what lies beneath the waters or the soil but the men and women along the Gulf Coast.

I am concerned because I fish out of the Gulf of Mexico. We are continually going further and further offshore.

I have a political report that the President wanted us to take legislation action on, and yet we have a scientific report that is contrary to the political report.

What we need in this country is jobs.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mrs. Blackburn

My amendment is simple. It prevents the misuse of recess appointments while preserving the Founders' intent by allowing the President to quickly make emergency recess appointments if the need arises. I know this may surprise many Members…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __ None of the funds made…

That is why, the last time prior to this when we did release oil from the strategic reserve was exactly that instance, when Hurricane Katrina affected the refineries and the production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. And you're right. We…

The gentleman must not understand that he wants to reinstate the de facto moratorium that is plaguing the Gulf of Mexico with this amendment. It is exactly what he's trying to put in place, which is allow the administration to drag its…

If this is not the American Dream that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim to tout so much, what is? This is a gentleman who doesn't have a college education. Who actually his children were the first generation in his entire…

A large majority of Americans oppose taxpayer subsidies for abortion. Those who oppose this bill, including the President, claim that it denies access to health care for women. My message to them is simple: the majority of women are…

What bothers me is that we always want everybody else to increase their production capacity for our gain, and we don't want to take responsibility for what we could do ourselves.

Mr. Speaker, we need to get our government back on the side of Mr. Dugas and the American people, back on the side of free enterprise, back on the side of small businesses, and back on the side of the job creators.

The Commission's recommendations are diametrically opposed to the Administration's own stated goals of reducing unemployment and lessening our dependence on foreign oil.

I believe that more agencies at the Department of Interior... will ultimately create more red tape without improving human or environmental safety.

My first priority is always the safety and economic well-being of my constituents in Coastal Louisiana.

We shouldn't wait for that spill to occur to make the necessary legal changes.

The current $75 million liability cap remains a laughable amount.

I certainly would like you to look in the eyes of the people who are losing their jobs down in Louisiana, who have built this industry, who have basically been drilling since 1947 off of that coast, and tell them that.

The risk of not making the new agency as autonomous as the Commission recommends is that the new agency, especially after there is less political attention paid over time to the risks of well blowouts, will, as in the past, place greater…

Rest assured, I will continue to work with my fellow like-minded colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee to create and keep jobs in the offshore energy sector.

The decision to deny them their jobs and to shut down every rig in the deepwater area, every exploration rig, is one that I think is highly contentious, excessive, and hard to justify.

I am having trouble understanding how you all can come to the conclusion that there are these systemic failures...