Blake Farenthold: “The people of United States want us to do something. They are mad. They are angry.”

It is my distinct pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Ryan), the sponsor of the bill and my friend, the Speaker of the House.

On May 25, 2017, Chairman Goodlatte wrote a letter to the Attorney General alerting him to the potential opportunity for the DOJ to recover $380 million in taxpayer dollars that the Obama administration improperly handed to their political…

This project has been continuously delayed by bureaucracy and what I believe to be the prior Administration's hostility to oil and gas.

I was completely exonerated by OCE and the settlement agreement has been paid. I'm doing my best and I'm going to hand a check over this week to probably Speaker Ryan or somebody and say, look, here is the amount of my settlement. Give it…