H.R. 4293, the 'Natural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act,' was introduced by Congressman Cramer and seeks to streamline the permitting process for natural gas gathering lines.

this gas is not only a waste product, it is also a pollutant, it is an emission of CO2 gases without any value added to it.

It is no secret that in North Dakota crude oil production has significantly increased.

we are trying to help them and help you keep people.

your employees, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture employees out in the Forest Service really are some of the hardest working people I know.

Representative Cramer's legislation, H.R. 4293, the Natural Gas Gathering Enhancement Act, reflects a straightforward modernization of the environmental permitting of gathering lines when there is clearly no significant environmental…

This is pure common sense.

I mean I was just with the President of the United States on a North Dakota Reservation a week ago, where he talked about honoring sovereignty.

I might just mention that this committee and this House did, in fact, pass the Native American Energy Act.

In New Town, North Dakota, right in the heart of the Bakken oil patch, an elderly woman once told an FBI agent that she knew human trafficking was taking place in her community because she saw young girls taking different men back and…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. With regard to the claims of parochialism, there is no question that those of us from the States that host these ICBMs are technical experts in the field. It only makes sense that we would know a lot…

The author Henry Miller wrote: ``The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts, an immense difference.'' Mr. Speaker, having grown up the son of a rural electric lineman, I am more than a little familiar with the not so ordinary…

Frankly, I don't find these investigations for truth to be 'mindless,' as depicted by the Ranking Member.

While representing the people of the United States in Congress means important oversight of the Government agencies they create, it should also mean full cooperation of these agencies to ensure full and timely disclosure of requested…

Like many in North Dakota, I am concerned the Obama administration is being selective in determining which energy producers are investigated or prosecuted.

What is your understanding of what a take is, given this new ruling that, to my knowledge, has not been challenged?

I spent nearly 10 years as an energy regulator in North Dakota. I oversaw 1,500 megawatts of new wind development.

And I would submit to you the lack of these policies and the lack of the clarity is the evidence of the lack of transparency.

Except that, according to the judge's ruling, 'taken' is not as easily described, or as defined as perhaps it once was.

I thank Chairman Hastings and Chairman Lamborn and my friend from Ohio, Mr. Johnson, for introducing this important legislation. I had the great honor, for nearly 10 years prior to coming to Congress, to be on the North Dakota Public…

I find it quite offensive, the terminology that we 'dragged a woman in here last year.'

The House of Representatives passed Mr. Valadao's bill, H.R. 3964.

California and the people of the San Joaquin Valley need more water storage, period.

We are looking for more shortage this year.

We will be pursuing legislation in the months ahead to improve the law and make it work better for both species and people.