Mark Gordon

When I talk to young people thinking about political careers, I always tell them the same thing: get out, get real experience, and take your time, learn stuff.

We would not have been a country, we would not have had a constitution, if there wasn’t some understanding that if you were landlocked, if that is you didn’t have access to the coast, that you couldn’t get your products out of.

It’s important not only for the coal industry. It’s important for every industry.

We would certainly go basically to the courts to enforce the commerce clause.

I am proud of the Wyoming Innovation Partnership’s proven and continued impact on Wyoming.

I am praying for all concerned and their families.

It’s particularly sad that we have a couple of fatalities, at least so far.

The circumstances were really tough and did not allow for as much as everybody wanted to do.

What these policies have done to Wyoming is pretty demonstrable.

Revenue from fossil fuels in Wyoming funds our schools, healthcare, public safety, and other essential services.

If the goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, targeting the production of Federal fossil fuels only shifts production to other countries, many of whom have far less stringent emission controls than the U.S.

Policies like the ban on Federal oil and gas leasing are disproportionately harmful to Western states due to the amount of land and minerals held by the Federal Government and really for no effective reason.

Wyoming does not need, nor do we welcome, an additional layer of Federal regulation to regulate methane emissions.

It is dramatic. In my testimony I mentioned a couple of those numbers--$5.7 million of that from lease sales alone, lease bonuses et cetera, and that's significant in our state.

I recently announced that Wyoming will work day and night to achieve negative net-zero carbon emissions across the whole spectrum of energy using wind, solar, nuclear, hydrogen, and fossil fuels.

There is a lot of governor support for not continuing this leasing ban.

Thank you for remembering that burning fossil fuels is not the problem. It is concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere that is the most urgent and critical task of this generation.

This leasing ban is detrimental to all of our states.

Thank you, Connie, for those kind words, but, more importantly, thank you for the grace that you show as you lead us. You continue to be our ambassador to the world.

I applaud Congressman Lipinski and Congressman Kinzinger for their leadership to develop and sponsor this bill.

What is stopping us would be this amendment. This amendment simply is not drawn, as much as the gentleman would like for it to be drawn in a narrow sense and as much as he would like for it to be a scalpel, it is not. Maybe, again, all…

I again urge passage of this bill and yield the remainder of my time to my friend from Michigan (Mr. Levin).

I have asked a member of the Committee on Rules to explain why we did not have an opportunity to vote on the ATP program to bring more jobs to this country, and I did not get a satisfactory answer. I asked a very informed member of the…

It is beyond me why we do not bring the best of ideas, Democrat, Republican, Independent, in here to try and create more and better jobs. I am really startled and shocked. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from…