The government continually reaffirmed its intention and resolve to restore the moratorium.

isn't this really an overall policy by the Administration to allow gas prices to go up, to allow energy prices, fossil fuels, to go up by constricting fossil fuel production in order to allow alternative fuels, which are not really cutting…

Isn't this an example of big government exploiting the private sector once again?

But certainly Chairman Hastings will look forward to further discussion, and hopefully working something out with you.

Two years ago, President Obama told a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, that current deficit spending was unsustainable, and that we are mortgaging our children's future with more and more debt. I agree with the President.

My concern is, and we have seen this happen before, is, other folks come in from the outside; they set up their entrepreneurial enterprises.

I was deeply disappointed that the Service extended that period for only 30 days.

Most concerning is that according to the BLM's Director, Bob Abbey, the plan as written could reduce Northwest commercial timber harvests by as much as 50 percent.

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, one thing that is lost in this debate is this fact, and that is there is a difference between coverage and access to care. I have been a physician for 35 years. I can tell you that today, pre…

But in that same period of time, think about the number of babies who have been killed through abortion, through a sterile area where a doctor goes in and we have the usual instruments and so forth and the fetus sucked out of the womb and…

I can tell you as a scientist and as a physician that life begins at conception, and that is often forgotten in this Chamber right here. Abortion violates the very tenets, the simple tenets of our culture, and that is the killing of…

The closure of the weapon storage area at Barksdale was a significant mistake with a negative operational impact.

First of all, I want to bypass the hysterics that have been going on tonight from some of our speakers and let's talk about the things that are important to Americans. I have the great honor of representing the people of the Fourth…

Clearly, this will have an effect on the jobs and economic livelihood on coastal and fishery-dependent communities and could have a devastating economic impact on a range of ocean users. So, for that reason, I stand in support and urge my…

But it was a disaster to Louisiana, my home State, in two ways: One, to our ecology, no question about it; but maybe even worse and longer term in jobs.

I cannot find one single permit for deepwater drilling that has been issued since the lifting of the moratorium, and we don't know when they ever will.

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, repealing ObamaCare is an imperative for four reasons. First, while it increases the numbers under coverage, it will ultimately sharply reduce access to care. Like Canada and Britain…

I rise today in support of House Resolution 32. Last week, in an act of cowardly violence, our friend and colleague, Gabby Giffords, was gunned down at a public event intended to give her constituents a forum to express their opinions…

The military is indeed a unique organization, and that such restrictions, such policies can indeed go forward. I would just like to say, in wrapping up, a couple of important statistics that I think should be mentioned, and that is that 60…

The problem is that the structure of ObamaCare that is so steeped in bureaucracy and so costly and so, I guess, handcuffing if you will of health care in general, health care decisions made by doctors, by the patients themselves, that is…

Yes, indeed, the bottom line, what we are saying here is that we can achieve all of these laudable goals without the complex bureaucracy of ObamaCare. We can expand health care to many more millions of people without creating an individual…

Mr. Speaker, you realize that in ObamaCare half a trillion dollars is taken from Medicare. And this is not just window dressing; this is real cuts that are occurring actually as we speak, are actually being scheduled, starting with…

I thank the gentleman. But even before we get to those cuts, it's already steeply increasing the premiums of average, everyday citizens. There is no way that you can cover an additional 32 million Americans--I mean, this is an empirical…

Well, I thank the gentleman, Dr. Gingrey, and, of course, Dr. Paulx Broun, my other colleague who is here tonight, both gentlemen from Georgia. I want to thank you both and state my appreciation for your leadership and for holding these…

On November 2, Americans sent a message to Washington that we are sick and tired of the out-of-control spending and bigger government that has existed over the last 2 years. While the lame duck Congress has unfinished business to complete…