03/07/2012
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"I am so proud to chair this committee on behalf of the people of Louisiana."
"When the people of Louisiana hold this gavel good things happen, in my view, for the industry."
"It means achieving energy security for the United States, something that has bedeviled the Members of Congress and Presidents for decades."
"Contrary to this situation and great irritation to me and to others, the Federal Government shared 50 percent of those same revenues on Federal lands in interior States."