John Hoeven

U.S. oil production is down nearly a million barrels a day since the current Administration took office.

Now, do you think that would help increase production or deter production in your opinion?

So, you commit to complying with their ruling, and will you, within two weeks provide a schedule of 2023 lease sales for North Dakota on BLM lands?

And close coordination with the people on the land out there on fire management?

And you would be supportive of reauthorization of the Joint Chiefs' Program in the Farm Bill?

And so are you willing to commit to work with us on that?

I do feel that we will make progress. Yes.

Because again, there is different ideas, in terms of, if you are really tourism focused in some of those groups they want a certain approach, and then our grazers need another approach.

The whole idea, of course, is to find these things, but then to inform others so that they can avoid, you know, some of the cyber problems that you do find.

We have got to get people back into the workforce.

I don't understand that because we are not going to get the benefits to the cadets, nor to the Merchant Marine, nor to our military, nor to our nation in general, if the Administration doesn't help fund the infrastructure required to…

We need to see more help for small business to really get through these supply chain issues.

Too much spending here in D.C. is a big part of the problem.

Given that Sackett v. EPA is in front of the Supreme Court, and it is likely to provide clarity as to what EPA's authority is over states and landowners, in regard to regulating the waters of the U.S., doesn't it make sense to put a…

We are very concerned about protecting private property rights.

You need to keep that in mind.

Recently the Congress voted on a bipartisan basis to overturn the WOTUS Rule put forward by the Biden administration.

Your own study shows that we are already doing that, and now you are adding additional regulation.

We are already capturing millions of tons of CO2, but we need help and regulatory certainty in order to keep doing that, and do more of it.

Do you think it is better for our country to get oil and gas from Federal lands in this country with our environmental standards, or is it better to get it from places like Venezuela, Russia, Middle East, and other places with vastly…

And you are telling me that you think those actions helped increase supply, when we are down a million barrels a day in production, domestic production?

Do you agree with Energy Secretary Granholm's call on oil and gas companies to increase production to help minimize harm to American families?

Gas prices are 41 percent higher nationally than when the President, the current President, took office.

And you would be supportive of reauthorization of the Joint Chiefs' Program in the Farm Bill?

And so that was really the effort behind the Joint Chiefs' Legislation that Bennett and I have.