"I today urge this committee to reject H.R. 6009, and its effort to proscribe BLM's rulemaking authority and shortchange American taxpayers for decades to come."
"I would seek unanimous consent to submit to the record a reporting from Vox around the Louisiana wildfires."
"And these decommissioning and coastal restoration jobs can help bridge the gap as we stand up the offshore wind industry in the Gulf, which offshore oil and gas workers are particularly well equipped ..."
"We could craft actual uniform rules, instead of delegating to an industry trade group to create those rules and to the operator themselves."
"Production in the Gulf of Mexico is at an all-time high."
"That is staggering. When we are talking about just job creation in general, the job development of this industry has been plummeting."
"So, we can start the process of spurring an enormous amount of job creation just by enforcing and demanding the cleanup of these 18,000 miles of pipeline, correct?"
"Do you believe that there is sufficient government oversight on offshore worker safety?"
"Big Oil does not need more handouts."
"Americans are still at the whim of the global market when it comes to energy prices here at home."
"It is essential that we begin to phase out fossil fuel extraction from Federal lands and waters."