Rob Bishop

EPA documents show the Agency was aware as early as June of 2014 that a massive blowout was possible.

I expect we will hear the words '1872 Mining Law' repeatedly from both the Administration and the minority, as they attempt to ignore EPA's culpability, shift blame, and pursue action on an agenda that would decimate the mining industry.

I want to also emphasize the fact that you have three districts of the EPA that are involved in this area.

Both the EPA and the Department of the Interior will be held accountable, today and in the future, as the recovery efforts continue.

Energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is an energy lifeline for our Nation--today providing 17 percent of our domestic crude and 5 percent of our natural gas.

Many examples demonstrate how the Interior Department has been dead wrong in their so-called 'management' of Federal lands.

The bottom line is we could be doing better, we should be doing better, and this Nation must have us do better.

While production in the Gulf has remained relatively stagnant over the past several years, skyrocketing oil and natural gas production on state and private lands has propelled the United States to surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become…

If EPA thinks that this action is acceptable as compliance, they are crazy.

No agency has perhaps expanded the Federal regulatory burden more than the EPA.

It is still hypocritical for agencies like EPA to expect everyday Americans to follow the regulations while they are able to evade them.

We will hold the Federal agencies accountable until we actually do get that.

Every agency seems to be enjoying this continuous onslaught of regulatory activity at a fever pitch.

To date, the EPA has not asked the [Fish and Wildlife Service] to engage in section 7 consultation on the proposed [new source performance standard] rule.

I would consider him to be arrogant, self-righteous, ineffective, unresponsive, and a jerk.

Instead of focusing on saving species, it has become a political tool for radical special interest groups.

I would note that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

EPA had not requested consultation on the rule for existing power plants.

We need to try that. I realize we have had a lot of conversation about Forest Service, but BLM has the same situation.

What the Interagency Working Group did not do is develop a formula for the social benefits of carbon.

This is the second of a series of oversight hearings on policies that involve the National Environmental Policy Act.

If there is a sideshow, it is this Administration, who rejects reality to enforce some kind of dogma.

I was hoping to ask them directly about this guidance and their participation in it, but OMB said they could not make it again.

Since OMB is usually the one that stops most of the testimony from getting to us on time, perhaps they did not have enough time to clear their own testimony with themselves.

This is a procedural motion. Obviously, if it were a serious one, we could have considered it anytime in committee or on the floor in the amendment process, but it is a procedural motion that is also somewhat flawed. In this particular…