Rush Holt: “the Federal Government actually does things to help people, but they can't agree on what to do about it.”

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.

I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.

At some point, that becomes a convenient excuse for a legislative strategy designed to produce political slogans rather than public laws.

Our domestic oil production is at a 20-year high. Natural gas production is at an all-time high.