Well, very briefly, Mr. Chairman, thank you for requesting this hearing. I think this is a very important topic.

I am concerned about the delay.

My State of South Carolina, and we heard from the gentleman from Virginia earlier, want to see those resources developed.

The inspector general has three basic concerns, and I think I mentioned those in my initial testimony, but I'll recap them.

I refer to as the Unaffordable Care Act, the cost projections are two and three times when we originally passed.

My time is up, but I heard in a meeting just this morning that Turkey, for instance, has a debt to GDP ratio of 35 percent. And now we have this $17 trillion debt.

Iran's perpetual defiance of the U.S. and international sanctions, coupled with its propensity for sponsoring international terrorism world-wide, constitutes a recipe for instability and a threat to the security of the U.S. homeland.

It is concerning to me that even though Iran has publicly stated that the promotion of all-out cooperation with Latin American countries is one of its top priorities and 'among the definite and strategic policies of the Islamic Republic of…

We cannot downplay the threat from Iranians seeking to exploit refugee and border security loopholes.

I want to thank the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee for his leadership on this issue as well as to thank my friend, Mr. Salmon from Arizona, for his leadership in the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on this issue because he…

This is a jobs bill. It creates American jobs, producing American energy. So it's an energy security bill, as well. And there can be no national security without energy security. So this is a national security bill, as well. Virginians get…

Let's just be clear, America, what we're talking about and where we're talking about. This chart shows the Western Gap, the only area covered under the transboundary hydrocarbons agreement--the agreement negotiated by the Obama…

I urge opposition to this motion, Mr. Speaker. What we have here in this motion to recommit is just the latest attempt by a few on the other side of the aisle to cater to special interests instead of the needs of the American people…

I want to commend the gentleman from Louisiana for his amendment. I think it is the right thing. I thing the Gulf Coast States are treated unfairly with the cap. This raises the cap. It's the right thing. I was talking with a gentleman…

I claim the time in opposition to the motion. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

They don't want to grapple with what it means to have a growing number of private anglers exploiting a precious and finite public resource.

I thank the gentleman. I have stood on the floor many times in my short service in the United States Congress to talk about this very topic, and that's American energy independence. We hear terms like all-of-the-above energy approach and…

Regional management does not fit the commercial fishery. It is opposed by all commercial fishermen I know.

the push for 'regional management' is nothing less than a back-door attempted coup d'etat.

I just, you know, for many years we had so many countries that were just completely underdeveloped.

Let me be clear. No one appreciates the job that you've done and continue to do more than I do.

As much as I would like to say let's set that land aside, let's buy this land, let's create a duck habitat... this overwhelming burden of our Nation's debt... overwhelms my desire to do that.

The Federal Government ought to be selling properties that we currently own that are sitting vacant in this city that we're having to maintain.

But we're in days of austerity. We're in days of austerity, and I would be more apt to support an option on purchase of that going forward, when times get not as lean as we are now.

If landowners become forced into willing sellers, to me that's not being a willing seller.