Rush Holt: “I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.”

I would prefer to talk about how it is not working right now and how something like the Affordable Care Act, an honorable attempt to see that we have got affordable, excellent health care for all Americans, should be the focus of a…

Unfortunately, while these two bills will improve our understanding of critical and strategic minerals, other pieces of legislation that we are considering today represent nothing more than huge giveaways to the mining industry and…

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

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.