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House Committee on Natural Resources Final Recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Co-Chairs Hensarling and Murray

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Dear Co-Chairs Hensarling and Murray: The Natural Resources Committee is committed to addressing our Nation's record debt and deficit levels and doing its part to contribute to the Joint Select Committee's efforts to cut at least $1.5 trillion in federal govemment spending from Fiscal Year 2012 to Fiscal Year 2021. Our growing debt stands in the way of long-term job creation and our…

Chairmen Hastings and Lamborn Follow-up Letter to Secretary Salazar Requesting Complete Compliance, Sets Deadline for Document Requests and Information on the 6-month Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Drilling Moratorium

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Dear Mr. Secretary: On September 28, 2011, the Committee once again wrote you to request that the Department of the Interior (DOI) provide documents and information relating to the Committee's investigation into whether senior officials of DOI, in an effort to help justify their decision to impose a 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, misrepresented…

Chairmen Hastings and Lamborn Follow-up Letter to Secretary Salazar Requesting Complete Compliance, Sets Deadline for Document Requests and Information on the Rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule

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Dear Mr. Secretary: On September 28, 2011, the Committee once again wrote you to request that the Department of the Interior (DOI) provide documents and information related to DOI's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement's (OSM) rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule (Rule). The Committee requested that documents related to OSM's concerns, discussions, comments or…

Local Gulf Business Leaders Testify on Lingering Economic and Energy Effects One Year After President’s Moratorium Lifted

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The House Natural Resources Committee today held an oversight hearing on “One Year after President Obama’s Gulf of Mexico 6-Month Moratorium Officially Lifted: Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy Production and Local Economies.” A year after the official moratorium was lifted in the Gulf, permitting, energy production and economic activities still have not returned to…