Rush Holt: “I hope we can get back to the expectation that we will come to completion in legislation, rather than using bills for a…”

We have not raised the civil penalties that can be levied by the Interior Department against oil companies that violate the law so that they are a meaningful financial deterrent.

H.R. 1587 would take the responsibility for approving oil and gas pipelines through the national parks away from Congress and hand it to the National Park Service.

the initiative you consider today is not about transparency or sound science; it apparently is about reducing regulations.

Like most legislative proposals from the Majority, the bill was drafted without any attempt at bipartisan or bicameral cooperation.