Vice President Biden is in Iraq – where he recently urged “Iraq to offer more generous terms at its next auction for oil concessions in the oil-rich country.” As one Senior American official noted “even one other deal would mean 50 to 60 billion dollars in additional investment in Iraq, 600 million dollars in additional annual revenue, and tens of thousands of additional jobs.” Does… Read more »

Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar testified before the House Natural Resources Committee on the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy Bill (H.R. 3534). Below are excerpts of questions and answers between Secretary Salazar and members of the committee on key issues including H.R. 3534, oil and natural gas production, the man-made California drought, and renewable energy. Watch the… Read more »

Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, today expressed his serious concerns with the Democrats' Roadblock to Energy bill (H.R. 3534) on the House Floor. He said, "This bill creates new levels of bureaucracy, which inevitably will slow new development of American sources of energy." "More roadblocks to energy development, means less energy for… Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee hearing on The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534): “The specific topic of today’s hearing is H.R. 3534.  Under the schedule set by Chairman Rahall, Secretary Salazar is just the first of many witnesses that the… Read more »

Check out Minority Leader John Boehner’s remarks on Chairman Rahall’s Energy Roadblock Bill: “Middle-class families and small businesses are struggling and our economy is shedding jobs, yet Democrats continue to push job-killing legislation that would hamstring environmentally-safe energy production and undermine job creation. Instead of pursuing an ‘all-of-the-above’ strategy to… Read more »

Today, September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act – a bill that throws up tax and fee roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation. Read Editions #1 and #2 of the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy bill. Roadblock #7: Increasing fees on wind and solar energy production (Sec. 503). Under this provision, wind… Read more »

On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act – a bill that throws up countless roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation. Click here to read Edition #1 of the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy bill. Roadblock #4: Blocking all energy production, including wind and solar, on public land (Sec. 101).… Read more »

On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) – a bill that throws up the following bureaucratic roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation: Roadblock #1: Creating Yet Another New Federal Government Office (Sec. 101). This provision creates a detour on the path toward energy production by… Read more »

Today, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) will release a report on the numbers of jobs saved or created due to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  In advance of this report, below is a list of jobs that the Obama Administration could save or create – without having to spend $787 billion - by simply supporting commonsense all-of-the-above energy… Read more »

Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534).  Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee released this bill last night and will hold hearings on it on September 16th and 17th. “Yesterday, with unemployment nearing 10… Read more »