Rush Holt: “this was an accident waiting to happen and that other such accidents will occur unless the culture is changed.”

Ranking Member Markey and Representative Grijalva and I will be introducing legislation that would ensure that large companies extracting minerals belonging to the taxpayer from public lands pay for the privilege of doing so, as they do…

I think it is important to ask really what this is all about, just not get lost in the weeds.

This kind of legislation exists in a fantasy land where President Obama is somehow shutting down U.S. energy production, not in the real world.

I hope we can get back to the expectation that we will come to completion in legislation, rather than using bills for a message.