Rob Bishop: “I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, the United States has become a leader in the area of energy production. But if we…”

“I thank the chairman. Mr. Chairman, the United States has become a leader in the area of energy production. But if we are going to maintain that leadership and be a true support for our allies, it requires certain actions that Chairman Upton and his committee have recognized and have presented to us in this North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act. This bill actually contains two provisions that were bipartisan provisions that passed in my Natural Resources Committee, both of which will ensure that the flow of energy to our Nation will be facilitated and will continue on in the future. One, by Mr. MacArthur of New Jersey, illustrates the archaic provisions that will never be used to prohibit and use Federal land as a hindrance to pipeline production even if those pipelines are underground and if they are already in established corridors for energy production, especially those going into the northeast of this country. It is an extremely important position and point of view. Mr. Zinke of Montana and Mr. Schrader of Oregon also have a bipartisan bill that deals with the Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act, which would minimize the potential of wildfire risk in the over 100,000 miles of power lines we have going through national forest and Bureau of Land Management properties.…”