Jun 12, 2017
If there is, maybe there is a way we could legislatively do something to give you those authorities, because it just seems like a wasted opportunity and a waste of resources to not address it.
John W. Peterson
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June 12, 2017
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by number of sources- I rise to support this conference report and commend the staff, who did a wonderful job and have been great to work with, and for the bipartisanship of resolving so many of these controversial issues. I was pleased that we had a President that is leading us in education and making education funding more simple and easier for our small, rural school districts to use. Federal programs have not always been easy for small districts to obtain and utilize; and I think the bill we passed, H.R. 1, does a lot of that, and this funds it. I am just pleased to be part of that. I am pleased we have raised Pell grants to $4,000. I am especially pleased that our children's hospitals in this bill have finally had the bias against them removed. This bill equalizes for the first time the funding that our children's hospitals will now receive, the same as our other teaching hospitals have historically received, to train those who treat our kids, our smallest.2 sources2001govinfo.gov
- I find this amendment interesting. These 36 leases are suspended. They are not active. This language only deals with 1 year, if my information is correct, so it says no money in this budget could be spent. From my understanding of the oil and gas business--and I come from where it started in Pennsylvania, I live 5 miles from the first oil well--is that really this legislation is of no value, or is somewhat meaningless, because you could not facilitate in 12 months what it would take to get these leases active, and so it prohibits activity for the next 12 months. But I would like to speak a moment on the bigger issue. Coming from an oil patch, I want to share with you what nature does. The hills in Pennsylvania where oil was first discovered, and we did not know much about production, they had gushers, it comes spurting out of the ground. There are pictures of a place that is now called Oil Creek State Park where there was nothing growing. Every tree was dead. Every blade of grass was dead. The streams were polluted. The hills were washing away every time you would get a rainstorm. Today, that is a mature oak forest. It is a State park. It is beautiful. The springs are clean. The streams are natural habitat for brook trout, as good as it gets. It was totally destroyed 100 and some years ago when oil was discovered, but nature has healed it. Back then, we did not know how to produce oil.2 sources2002govinfo.gov
- Mr. Chairman, it has been interesting tonight as we have heard the discussion here about a number of issues dealing with EPA, an agency that I find sometimes more troubling than the IRS. They have one of the most important jobs in this country. But if you ask your local communities, you ask your state agencies, you ask anyone who deals with them, they are one of the most difficult. One of the issues that was shared here a short time ago was that the Knollenberg language was going to prevent the EPA from doing their job. This administration asked in this year's budget for $6.3 billion on the Kyoto treaty and global warming. Now, they claim they do not want to implement, but many Members have said they are going to implement and they have done many things that would start that process. $6.3 billion is almost equal to the EPA budget. I guess that is beyond my imagination, that a government would ask for $6.3 billion to market a theory, 'global warming.' When this issue started, I asked one of the top climatologists in America, who was having lunch with me downstairs, if there was global warming, because I wanted his opinion. Without any doubt he just looked at me and said, 'There is no evidence, and I have been in this business all my life.' I want to share with you that climate researchers do not agree whether the earth will become warmer during the coming century.2 sources1998govinfo.gov
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Jun 12, 2017
I think there is more to it than that, though. It is local leadership that is part of it, because local leaders had to recognize the program could assist them, and they reached out and adopted it. Many states still haven't.
Jun 18, 2008
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Jun 18, 2008
If the Democrats win this debate and we don't produce energy--if we use these old statements of 68 million acres and 80 something percent is leased, that is not factual; 2.5 percent of the Outer Continental Shelf is leased, the good spots…
Jun 18, 2008
That's right. We need to get out into the fertile fields where we'll drill less holes in the ground, but we'll get massive prime production where you get into a fertile field that's got great gas pressure and great oil pressure and we'll…
Jun 18, 2008
Well, we're so far behind the curve right now, we were talking to Minerals and Mines Management today. Many of our rigs went to Russia to drill because there's so much more activity there. The big owners go where the action is, and they're…
Jun 18, 2008
Twenty percent of our grid is nuclear. We need 45 new plants by 2030 online to stay 20 percent of the grid, not grow. See, everything's shrinking. Hydro is becoming a smaller piece because we're not building dams. Everything's shrinking…
Jun 18, 2008
Fifteen percent of our natural gas comes from them, and they are our largest supplier of oil by far. Right off the Washington coast they produce. They have produced since 1913 in Lake Erie and sell us the gas. They drill gas only in Lake…
Jun 18, 2008
They're drilling platforms, and it takes years to get there. So some of these are in process. A lot of them are old, tired leases where we're now drilling between wells. And the return, we're drilling three times as many wells as we used…
Jun 18, 2008
In the first subcommittee last Wednesday we had six Republicans ``yes'' and nine Democrats ``no.'' Now, it's not totally been a partisan issue. This was the first time they locked up their vote. This new administration here, the Speaker…
Jun 18, 2008
That is true. But I want to make a point there. I'm not against ethanol. After the 15 million they want to go to--or billion gallons, they want to go to cellulosic. But we have to remember we have a mandate on cellulosic ethanol that still…
Jun 18, 2008
We keep hearing from over there that it was all ethanol. Ethanol was just a piece. It was 15 percent. The rest was normal oil and gas energy. But they had a plan. I think we ought to have a plan for North America. Stop and think about…
Jun 18, 2008
And those coal plants will all be natural gas plants which will further exacerbate the natural gas prices. Center for Biological Diversity: Oil and gas drilling on public lands has devastating effects and must be stopped. They're winning…
Jun 18, 2008
This has all happened without a storm in the gulf, which always escalates prices, without any country having a major coup or problem, or without any terroristic attack on the system. I don't think anybody dreamed that we would have $135 to…
Jun 18, 2008
Well, it's interesting, we have the talking points of the Democrats that they have 68 million acres under lease; there are--some are saying 5,500 leases, some are saying 10,000 leases: That's enough, they're not producing. I had one of…
Jun 11, 2008
The president of DOW Chemical said in a letter I received, he said, We have a debate going on in this country and one side wants production, the other side wants conservation and renewables. He said you're going to need them all. You'll…
Jun 11, 2008
Today, June 11 of the year 2008, we had an interesting happening in the Capitol. We have had $4 gasoline for some time now, we have had $5 diesel, record high natural gas prices approaching $13 per thousand, the most expensive energy…
Jun 10, 2008
Today natural gas opened at $12.65 per 1,000 Btus. That is an almost 100 percent increase from this time a year ago. Natural gas is the clean, green fuel that powers our manufacturing economy, accounts for 23 percent of the energy consumed…
Jun 5, 2008
Folks, if we're serious about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, we can get affordable energy for America by producing offshore. Every country in the world produces here. We're the only country that doesn't, and we can have $20 billion, which…
Jun 5, 2008
I think we are going to be forced into innovation. That is good. But I will have to say the current prices of driving a vehicle and heating a home this year in my rural district are going to be prohibitive for some people being able to…
Jun 5, 2008
I find the testimony from the gentleman from New York interesting. He mentioned pellet stoves, one of the new future heat. 800,000 Americans now heat their homes with a pellet stove. There's 30 or 40 pellet mills sprung up around the…
Jun 4, 2008
I can't talk to a neighbor, a friend, anywhere but what they're talking about energy prices. And it's interesting that it's not being talked about in this House in a productive way. In fact, 2 weeks ago we passed a bill that attempts to…
May 20, 2008
In fairness to those countries, they're producing more and more energy, and we have chosen not to produce very much of our own only in the whole entire fields. And yet we pass a bill so we think we can sue them because they're not…
May 20, 2008
I was in a hardware store last month, and they had their coats on. And I said, what's going on? He said, in the spring and the fall season now we don't heat our store because people, working people are coming in to buy hardware and lumber…
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