We may be at high levels today, but we are not going up. We are going down.
It used to be, basically, you submitted your permit and within 30 or 60 days, you got a yes or a no.
The Lease Act fairly restores time lost as a result of the offshore moratoria by extending the impacted leases by 1 year.
There is a tremendous amount of money, Mr. Chairman, being invested by companies. There is oil and gas in the ground.
It is quite alarming that, to date, not one single new deepwater well permit for drilling in the Gulf has been issued.
If we don't start issuing permits more quickly for new drilling, if we don't start exploring in areas that really deserve to be explored, th...
this Senator will not vote for anything unless there is some recognition of the platform that our State, you know, serves for this industry
There is not a new deepwater permit. Is that correct?
I want to clear for the record that--and this is from the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook--this is not Mary Landrieu's chart.
Questions Submitted by Senator Mary L. Landrieu
I helped to lead the effort to privatize the Army housing, which has been really successful with the family housing.