Pete Stauber

Unfortunately, the EPA is back to interpreting the Waters Rule and actually announced their intention to revise the Waters Rule and make it even worse.

The Trump administration rightfully chose to heed the concerns of these small entities and created the Navigable Waters Protection Rule.

As everyone well knows, small business owners, farmers and ranchers were very negatively impacted by the Obama era Waters of the United States, the Waters Rule.

Thank you Mr. Chair and Ranking Member Westerman, for holding this hearing.

While we can all agree that increasing contracting goals of the federal government, especially of the disadvantaged small businesses, it is a laudable goal, I think we need our agencies to be more transparent.

We have a responsibility to make sure small businesses across America succeed.

Government ought to get out of the way and let small businesses flourish under those prudent regulations.

I think we need more people that have signed the front of the checks in small businesses.

Jim Hagedorn loved his fiscal responsibility and I see my good friend Mr. Phillips down there.

He loved nothing more than serving the First District of Minnesota. He loved his small farmers and he loved his small business.

The hypocrisy here on this particular project is astounding because of not having consultation...

I think it is kind of hypocritical that you can pick and choose who you consult with, and it is disappointing.

It is very concerning when we have folks coming up talking about environmental justice and consultation and you have a community that was never consulted on the master development plan for the Willow Project.

You are the mayor of the community, the community in which the Willow Project will be put forward, and in the spirit of environmental justice and consultation, you as the community leader were never consulted on the project.

The mayor of the community has said he was not consulted.

To disclose the true impacts we were asking the Interior Department to do is a legitimate thing.

The bill also creates new fees on oil, gas, and coal industries, and creates another government payout scheme.

H.R. 2021, titled the Environment Justice For All Act and sponsored by Chairman Grijalva, truthfully is a legislative vehicle for more of the same from this Majority.

This bill also creates new fees on oil, gas, and coal industries and creates another government payout scheme.

It plainly misses the mark.

When Americans are getting gouged at the pump, it doubles down on their pain by increasing the cost of production.

When Americans want to get back to work, it creates more red tape.

H.R. 2021, titled the 'Environmental Justice For All Act,' as sponsored by the Chairman, truthfully is a legislative vehicle for more of the same from this Majority.

We are suffocating small business with these overburdensome regulations that some unelected bureaucratic thinks is a good idea.

The Biden administration in 1 year, by their own admittance, has added $200 billion of new regulatory cost.