John Curtis actually said...

"It's a great bill. It actually passed on a bipartisan basis in the 115th Congress, and I'd to commend this bill to my colleagues as one possible solution to help us move through this."

"Almost 20 years after the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005, we still do not have enough petroleum engineers, geologists, and staff within the Bureau of Indian Affairs to support development of..."

"We are taking that responsibility away from the state, and we are going to take that, and I think when we make these decisions, we have to step up for that."

"We feel like we preserve and protect that area in a magnificent way, and now the Federal Government has taken it over without adding any resources."