How can Americans trust an investigation run by a Special Counsel who by allowing the statute of limitations to expire irreversibly, quote, "sanitized the most criminal conduct and concealed material facts"?

We have been investigating very serious charges made about your department and other elements of the Biden Administration which allege ignoring the law to protect political allies from being held accountable for their wrongdoing.

The regulation coming at our industry is astounding, just one of those rules we are really going to focus on today.

We have an Administration doing that in the name of climate change, but then running to Saudi Arabia and, before the invasion, to Russia, asking for them to increase their production.

The President has let OPEC set energy prices instead of what my industry did just a few short years ago when we made OPEC irrelevant.

This unnecessary, self-imposed moratorium is extremely concerning, highly unusual, and has negative cumulative impacts for state revenue and for the economic health of this state and, I would add, for this country.

this tells us either that the Biden administration is unaware of how significant oil and gas is to our state, or they simply don't care.

The honest fact is it is just not 9,000.

Why would this Administration insist on exporting our economy and our jobs to other nations to do something that we can do better?

Why is it that every policy this Administration pursues is intended to create energy poverty?

Don't you agree that the BLM, in pursuing these radical policies, should make even a rudimentary effort to get an understanding of the consequences of their decisions?

Why would the BLM want to incentivize even more frivolous lawsuits against energy development in this country?

the BLM is breaking the law.

It seems like that this Administration has a different agenda in mind.

John Kerry, the climate czar, has himself said we could stop all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and it would make no difference on global climate change.

I really urge the Administration not to curtail U.S. oil and gas production, but instead work with us.

President Biden and Democrats in Congress continue to push the false narrative that there are leases available out there that oil and gas companies are just choosing not to use.

the risk that we all recognize are posed by China and the communist party that runs that country.

And if this is a threat, then I think that you have really asked something way above my pay grade.

I am a strong advocate, No. 1, in making sure that you have the autonomy to do what you need to do to take care of your tribal members, because I think you are going to be better at it than anybody out of Washington, DC.

Today, the Subcommittee is meeting to consider a discussion draft of the 'Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2023.'

We have taken self-governance 638 and we have done it better than what IHS could ever do.

Secretary Mayorkas, does the affiliation with conservative or Christian beliefs make someone a Nazi or a domestic terrorist?

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution rests on the principle that no person or institution, including the government, has a monopoly on the truth.

OK. Then if that is so, why is your agency targeting Americans who are Christians and conservatives?