Rob Bishop: “Yes, but you are becoming a good capitalist at the same time. Thank you for having a monopoly and then charging for it.”

Just as locking up large sums of lands has been a terrible and expensive idea, locking up 30 percent of our oceans does not translate to good stewardship.

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.

This is a good bill, and we obviously have no problems with this particular bill. When I started, I talked about kleinigkeiten on the small stuff. As good as this is, it is still small stuff and, actually, it is taken out--it is a portion…