"It is well past time to open a small portion, less than 3 percent, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to responsible energy production."
"These proposals to allow new offshore and onshore energy production will generate substantial revenues."
"The Obama Administration has actively sought ways to put an end to the coal industry through onerous regulations and activist rulemaking."
"Increased energy production is one of the best ways to help jump start our economy."
"A majority of Americans support increased offshore drilling."
"On Monday, I introduced H.R. 3409, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act."
"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."
"According to the Obama Administration's own independent analysis, the rewrite of the rule could eliminate up to 27,000 direct and indirect jobs associated with the coal industry."
"It astounded us; after all of the hard work that had gone through so much, after all the taxpayers' dollars we expended to get Virginia into the position it is in, to find out it has been wiped out, a..."
"Its amazing to me that we have grown into a society that protects sage grouse more than American soldiers."
"It seems to me that there is just a pattern of mismanagement on this rulemaking by OSM."