Cynthia Lummis

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for creating this subcommittee and giving us an opportunity to look at some issues that are so impactful for our citizens.

I thank the gentlelady from Michigan and look forward to our collaboration.

These rules would result in massive consumer electricity price increases and trillions of dollars in lost economic activity.

Instead, it will result in more red tape, displace local management programs and shift limited resources away from working environmental programs.

The EPA has proposed a rule that will increase its regulatory authority far beyond current policy.

It would allow the EPA almost unconstrained access to regulate and burden landowners with endless environmental studies.

This overreach will impact families and businesses across the country.

Nuclear energy is a reliable, resilient, and has safely powered America for decades.

Nuclear power currently accounts for approximately 19 percent of the United States' electricity generation and 60 percent of our emission-free electricity.

Is the United States going to remain a global leader in nuclear technology?

The time frame for bringing a nuclear reactor online is unforgivably long and so we must work together to make sure that we can make it more time-sensitive.

When will we see the commercialization of small modular nuclear reactors that can be deployed at off-grid locations?

This Committee has conducted I believe 87 hearings during the course of the last two years under Chairman Smith's leadership

How does delaying this bill moving forward advance that conclusion? Would you like to have the bill written so it uses a specific number?

So when you say the money is coming from Federal land elsewhere, it is coming from--I am the 'elsewhere.' It is from Wyoming.

This bill doesn't have anything to do with Wyoming. This has to do with trying to help out the Navajo and trying to get Ark Land Company's property rights monetized.

H.R. 5176 is essential to fulfill our Federal obligation to the Navajo Nation.

Well, you know what? Time is kind of a'wasting. You know, we are down to the wire here. So my time is expired. But, man, I would just like to get this done.

I appreciate that, and I get that, and I am sorry to interrupt you. I was kind of hoping that you could just say 'yes' or 'no.'

It is a little bit like me being a parent and, when my daughter would ask me for something, I would say, 'We will see.'

I have been here long enough to know that, when the Administration comes in with a statement that says we would like to continue to work with the sponsors, that is code, and that is code for, 'We don't like this bill, but we don't want to…

H.R. 5176, co-sponsored by Mrs. Lummis.

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination.

Petroleum from the Bakken region recently passed 1 million barrels per day, which accounts for approximately 12% of total domestic production.

Today, the Energy and Oversight Subcommittees will inquire about the characteristics and behavior of petroleum produced from the Bakken region.