Political Quotes

“it is a privilege to join my colleague from West Virginia, Senator Capito, on the floor today to talk about legislation that we will be introducing tomorrow. It is about permitting, and I come to the floor to talk about ways to lower prices for American families and to restore our country to energy dominance. And, of course, the way to achieve this is by fixing our broken permitting process. There is a lot of work to be done. There is bipartisan support to do it. She will be introducing, along with me, our legislation tomorrow, and this legislation is going to streamline a very complicated permitting process. It is going to speed up American infrastructure and energy, as well as mining projects. Taken together, this legislation will address fatal flaws in today's Federal permitting process. Now, the current system moves in very slow motion. Too often, as Senator Capito said, there is no motion at all. Things are stopped in their tracks. Today's process forces project developers to endure a maze of regulations, mountains of paperwork, expensive studies, and bureaucratic foot-dragging. It takes an average of 4\1/2\ years now just to complete an environmental impact statement for one single project. In some cases, it can take a decade or more to get final approval for a project. And even if a project makes it through the regulatory roadblocks to get a permit, it will inevitably be challenged in court.…”