"Do you believe H.R. 527 would incentivize tolling agreements to refine crude helium between your company and entities not connected to the pipeline?"
"H.R. 527, 'The Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act,' represents a significant step forward in addressing the concerns associated with the helium supply from the reserve."
"Our nation's Federal Helium Reserve supplies nearly HALF of the helium used in the United States and roughly a THIRD of all the helium used globally."
"But the National Academy of Sciences concluded in 2010 that BLM's current system for pricing crude helium may slow efforts to aggressively pursue alternative crude helium sources, and negatively impac..."
"This is an issue that should rise above partisanship."
"There is no question that the BLM has been complicit in perpetuating these inequities."
"Just a point. In 2009 in this committee and on the House Floor, Mr. Waxman and I built in $60 billion for clean coal technology, carbon capture and sequestration."
"Over the last 5 years, unfortunately, coal has dropped from 51 percent down to 35 percent of all electrical generation in the country, and what has gone up? Natural gas."
"So don't blame us, blame the coal industry for not wanting the funding and blame the natural gas industry for their technological breakthroughs that have allowed for the production of more and cheaper..."
"Isn't it true that EIA's 2010 data predicted that domestic natural gas use in the power sector would decline between 2010 and 2020, though its use in the power sector has actually ended up growing by ..."
"In 2009 in this committee and on the House Floor, Mr. Waxman and I built in $60 billion for clean coal technology, carbon capture and sequestration."