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

Both H.R. 313 and the OMB Guidance, I think regrettably, put forward prohibitions and impediments that hinder scientific collaboration and communication.

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.

It would require drilling in important fisheries and sensitive environments like Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, all without enacting key drilling safety reforms, following one of the greatest environmental disasters in our…

We have not enacted a single legislative reform out of this Committee to improve the safety of offshore drilling.