Jim Inhofe: “Mr. Elkins, you have your work cut out for you.”

the conservation practices have helped to nearly double the total lesser prairie chicken population size since 2013.

There is no state that is more dependent upon the issues that are brought in this Committee hearing, and this is the reason I got on it in the first place.

As easily, perhaps, as some of the larger companies are able to do.

First of all, I want to thank the chairman for all the hard work. People don't realize that this is, in my opinion, the most significant vote of the year. It has been one we have been through for a long period of time, and it is necessary…