And that is assuming the best-case scenario, and we are not on a glide path to that right now, in my view.
We cannot close down the offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region.
We must get the Gulf of Mexico back producing for national security, for our environmental, and for small businesses.
I too believe the moratorium is arbitrary and capricious.
This decision was wrong-headed, it is irresponsible, and it is reckless.
Lifting this moratorium can give us back its 'Joie de vivre.'
unnecessary, ill-conceived, and a second economic disaster for the Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill was the exception rather than the rule.
My question to President Obama and to his Administration after they scrambled to put an economic analysis together that they should have put...
I would say to the Administration, listen to your own experts. Listen to the facts, as the Chair of this Committee has so articulately prono...
I share the Administration's goal of a safer oil and gas industry, not their method to achieve that.
I sent a letter to President Obama yesterday announcing my intention to hold another hearing no later than September 16th.