Rush Holt

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…

These bills are relics of a bygone area--as relevant as the telegraph or the horse and buggy.

These Republican drilling bills would elevate speed over safety while opening huge new swaths of public land.

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

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.

We have not raised the liability cap from $75 million to ensure that oil companies are held accountable and taxpayers are not stuck with the bill for cleaning up spills.

For instance, despite being entitled the 'National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013,' H.R. 761 has absolutely NOTHING to do with developing these minerals.

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…

H.R. 761 has absolutely NOTHING to do with developing these minerals. In fact, this bill is all about gutting the environmental safeguards.

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…

H.R. 761 has nothing to do with developing these minerals. In fact, it is about gutting environmental safeguards.

Many of these measures passed the House in the last Congress but were too extreme to pass the Senate.

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

As a professional scientist and now a member of Congress, I testify today with firsthand knowledge of how scientific innovation, especially what has developed from the sharing of ideas at conferences, contributes to every American's…

The principal's first responsibility as a school leader is to foster a safe, orderly, warm, and inviting environment where students come to school ready and eager to learn.

I have introduced legislation in the House, the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act (H.R. 482), that would require all institutions of higher learning to clearly define their anti-harassment policies, and distribute these…

The obstacles this bill creates would hinder that kind of collaboration.

Creating a non-violent school atmosphere can certainly be a challenge, especially when the violence is brought to the school campus from outside.

We must consider more than just repairing the damage from Sandy. In recent years, we have experienced in various parts of New Jersey unprecedented floods, winds, rains, tidal surges.

Without those citizen watchdogs, without citizen enforcement of environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, we would be in a lot of trouble.

We increasingly understand the effects, the impact, that this sort of mining has on our environment and on the health of local communities.

Mountaintop removal mining is one of the most destructive practices on Earth for the health of local communities, our climate and our environment.

The EPA has concluded that this mine will 'transform these headwater streams from high quality habitat into sources of pollutants.'

Mountaintop removal mining can be one of the most destructive practices on earth for the health of local communities, our climate, and our environment.

But two things that were not uncertain before the health care law was passed was health care costs in America would go up 8 percent a year, or more, and insurance companies would spend a smaller and smaller fraction of the premiums that…