Rob Bishop: “The Citizens of this great country need to have the means to hold the employs of these agencies accountable for their…”

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.

I know that when Democrats were in the Minority, they used to object to some of the titles which we had on our hearings.

Let's get a couple of things very clear. First of all, this is not about the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We reauthorized permanently the Land and Water Conservation Fund in the last Congress, and in doing that, in a House Republican…

Did you tell me the form the clearance has to have? In what form must it be? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has advised only that appropriate clearance must be provided. It has not been so provided, and so the Chair cannot entertain…