We can't fix our roads unless Big Oil gets its fix.

Unfortunately, the majority's drilling bills would barely get us started down the road of paying for a transportation bill.

On the debt deal, the Republicans said it was my way or the highway. On the continuing resolution, they said it was my way or the highway. And now when it comes to funding the transportation bill, they are saying my way or our highways; we…

These companies aren't just the 1 percent. They are the 1 percent plus.

Even the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Inhofe, acknowledged this week that increased drilling would not be able to fund a transportation bill, stating, quote, there is no money in expanded…

This week Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee introduced legislation that would generate nearly four times as much revenue as these drilling bills through ensuring that oil, gas, and mining companies are paying their fair share.

We need a concrete plan. We can pave the way for a transportation bill by ensuring that the American people get a proper return on the resources below public lands.

The bill today that offers up oil shale as an answer to our current economic woes does not really pass the real test, much less achieve any of the stated goals of this Subcommittee.

I believe the Markey bill, which would create an annual production incentive fee to ensure that industry uses these resources it already has in hand, would do just that.

Mr. Speaker, though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, may not be a household name, Americans rely on this agency every day to provide critical weather information and to support ecologically sustainable and…

they are actually going to increase the amount of revenue that comes off of Federal lands that are given to the States rather than keeping it in the Federal Treasury.