Increased energy production is one of the best ways to help jump start our economy.

My recommendation is that the BLM and the federal government pass laws that keep the bureaucracy of Washington out of the industry and make all federal lands available to the private sector.

Now, I wish I didn't have to introduce this legislation, but it is necessary to stop one aspect of the Administration's continued war on coal.

Let me be clear, we welcome reasonable environmental planning to the table of planning the oil shale industry, but I think more emphasis going forward will be placed on American lives, American jobs and stopping our wars overseas for oil.

A majority of Americans support increased offshore drilling.

Its amazing to me that we have grown into a society that protects sage grouse more than American soldiers.

On Monday, I introduced H.R. 3409, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act.

I am both shocked and alarmed at your verbal testimony and your written testimony that has been entered into the record.

There is no reason why we should not provide access to our own energy resources here.

So is it safe to say that, contrary to what Director Pizarchik told members of this Committee 2 weeks ago about the 2008 stream buffer zone rule being a rollback, that is false?

It seems to me that there is just a pattern of mismanagement on this rulemaking by OSM.

So if Director Pizarchik claims that those numbers were meaningless placeholders, as he has indicated before this Committee, and that they had no basis in fact, why would they need to have an all-day meeting to discuss how to change the…

I have breaking news for President Obama and Senate Democrats: House Republicans have passed more than 20 bills that would create much needed jobs, but the Democrat-controlled Senate won't even consider them. The hardworking people of…

I am absolutely clear that we are staying within the bounds of the law.

You are going to filibuster, just like you have done so many other times today, and you are not going to answer the question.

I believe it is imperative we take into consideration the national security implications of our energy policy.

Like many of the proposals my colleagues and I have put forth in this Committee, the Keystone Pipeline project will help our nation reduce our dependency on sometimes hostile foreign sources of energy.

However, this ill-advised and purely political decision by the President will do more than just domestic economic harm, but it will have grave national security implications as well.

That is what we are trying to give you here.

Do you agree with your Department's testimony that it will dilute the central message of the World War II Memorial?

I want to know is do you agree with your Department's position and the Administration's position that putting on the World War II Memorial Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer will necessarily dilute the central message of the World War II…

The national unemployment rate is 9.1% and there is very little proof this number will improve in the coming months.

placing the President's prayer, D-Day prayer, on the World War II Memorial will necessarily dilute this elegant memorial's central message

It is clear we are not going to get any answers here today.

I submit to you that it is not under SMCRA.