John Barrasso

We need to continue to work together to improve the regulatory framework.

I know, and these aren't just a couple of training events. I understand about 341 different events over the last two years with almost 5,000 participants attending.

In our Committee hearing back in July, I think it was July 23rd, we talked and you testified that the Assistance, Compliance, Enforcement initiative, the ACE initiative, would be a guiding principle in fulfilling your agency's regulatory…

You see value in the process?

Our ability to export LNG is an important foreign policy tool.

Can you tell me how successful the Kyoto Protocol was in making countries that signed the treaty more energy independent and secure from countries or foreign entities that did not share their strategic interests?

I think it was an interesting discussion and then decision in Australia to repeal because of the specific impacts of it on the economy.

Accepting the connection can lead to the dangerous expansion of U.S. security concerns, inappropriately applied resources, and diversion of attention from more effective responses to known environmental problems.

So I say, why should we then spend billions of taxpayer dollars, defense dollars specifically, on climate change predictions about future conflicts due to drought and famine that the Department's own studies say that we cannot predict?

The threat assessment states that, 'There are increasing reports of Italian organized crime groups engaging in a so-called alternative or green energy market.'

So I ask you, Mr. Secretary: Are there serious unintended consequences to our national security if we go down this path, as Europe has done?

Increased LNG exports from the United States and its allies would shift rents away from traditional autocratic suppliers, including Russia.

Well, that is what I heard when I was in Latvia and Lithuania, that the concerns are that they were supposed to get to 2 percent, but they are unable to, and a lot of it has to do with the expenses that you have outlined.

Senator Inhofe had a statement that he would like to have included in the record.

A recent survey cited in the report found that primary causes of interstate conflict and civil war are political, not environmental.

There are serious implications for our national security, and you see them by the climate policies being implemented in places like Europe.

The administration's foreign policies have led to a more unstable and more dangerous world.

Taxpayer money would be better spent improving the security of U.S. embassies.

Secretary Kerry has called climate change the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.

The United States is facing serious national security threats across the globe.

If the United States had adopted a cap-and-trade system, do you think it would have helped or hurt our strategic interests?

Efforts to link climate change to the deterioration of U.S. national security rely on improbable scenarios, imprecise and speculative methods, and scant empirical support.

The world is far from safe, far from save to preserve our national security.

The one person who foresaw many of the problems we are now encountering and tried to address them was Senator Barrasso of Wyoming.

The need to amend the Indian Land Consolidation Act to accommodate this new use in many of the same ways now proposed in the Daines and DeFazio bills.