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Natural Resources Republicans Unveil Legislation to Expand Onshore American Energy Production, Lower Gas Prices
Press Release
Apr 18, 2012 - In the spirit of House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative, Republican Members of the Natural Resources Committee today unveiled a series of bills to expand onshore American energy production, lower gasoline prices and create new American jobs. The three all-of-the-above onshore energy bills would streamline govern... More

Hastings: President Obama Should Support Bipartisan Plan to Increase American Energy Production and Reduce Price at the Pump
Press Release
Apr 17, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after President Obama failed to announce a plan to increase American energy production to help lower gasoline prices but instead proposed spending $52 million on more federal regulations that will not ease the pain at... More

Chairman Hastings Statement on March Jobs Report
Press Release
Apr 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March unemployment report: “With March job creation significantly underperforming experts’ anticipations, ever higher gasoline prices are a growing threat to job creation an... More

Travel and Tourism Experts Voice Economic and Job Loss Concern Over Rising Gasoline Prices
Press Release
Mar 27, 2012 - Today the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing to examine the impact high gasoline prices have on job creation and economic growth in America’s tourism and travel industry, which last year supported 14 million U.S. jobs. “According to the Wall St Journal, every dollar increase in gas prices means... More

Hastings Statement on Federal Judge Reversal of Obama Administration's Unprecedented Move to Retroactively Destroy Coal Mining Jobs
Press Release
Mar 23, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after a federal judge ruled that President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented move last year to retroactively revoke an Army Corps of Engineers permit for a coal mine in West Virginia “exceeded it... More

House Approves Bipartisan Bill to Create Jobs, Stimulate Local Economy in Accomack County, Virginia
Press Release
Mar 20, 2012 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2087, a no-cost jobs bill that would remove government restrictions that are blocking job creation and economic development on a small parcel of land in Virginia. Sponsored by Rep. Scott Rigell (VA-02), the bill was approved by a bipartisan vote of 240-164. H.R. 2087 woul... More

Subcommittee Questions Obama Administration's BOR and PMA Budgets that Could Increase Electricity Rates and Decrease Water Deliveries
Press Release
Mar 20, 2012 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing to examine the negative impacts to water supplies and hydropower rates that will result from the Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget and priorities for the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), the Four Power Marketing Admini... More

Energy Information Administration: Federal Energy Production Declining on President Obama's Watch
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Mar 15, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings released the following statement after the Energy Information Administration, the non-partisan data collection branch of the Department of Energy, released updated data on federal energy production. The data shows President Obama’s anti-energy policies are startin... More

Witnesses Call for Increased Public Participation, Transparency in Federal Land Management Decision-Making Process
Press Release
Mar 12, 2012 - Today, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held an oversight field hearing in Elko, Nevada entitled, “Explosion of Federal Regulations Threatening Jobs and Economic Survival in the West.” At the hearing, Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) and Representative Mark Amodei (NV-02) heard... More

Chairman Hastings Statement on February Unemployment Report
Press Release
Mar 9, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on today’s unemployment report for the month of February from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The unemployment numbers released today are good news for those few who found work in February but for millions of Americans aro... More

House Approves Bipartisan Plan to Create Jobs, Expand Renewable Hydropower Production
Press Release
Mar 7, 2012 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2842, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act of 2012, with a bipartisan vote of 265-154. Sponsored by Rep. Scott Tipton (CO-03), H.R. 2842 is an action plan to create new American jobs and eliminate bureaucratic hurdles to small ... More

Obama Administration's Coal Mining Regulation will be Over-budget, Overdue, and Cost Thousands of Jobs and Energy Security
Press Release
Mar 6, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) Fiscal Year 2013 Budget and received testimony from OSM Director Joe Pizarchik on the status of the Obama Administration’s actions to initiate rewrite coal mining regulatio... More

Chairman Hastings' Floor Statement on Bipartisan Plan to Expand Renewable Hydropower Production
Floor Statements
Mar 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2842, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act of 2011 – a plan to create new American jobs and expand production of clean, renewable hydropower ... More

5 Energy Questions for President Obama
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Mar 6, 2012 - This afternoon President Obama will hold a press conference to discuss, among other issues, rising gas prices. Here are five questions President Obama should answer regarding his Administration’s energy policy: Gas prices have doubled since you took office and the average price of gas has already surpassed $4 in some a... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Southerland
Blog
Mar 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. The Committee continues its Jobs Watch series this week with Freshman Committee Member Steve Southerland from Flo... More

Chairman Hastings Delivers the Weekly Republican Address
Blog
Mar 4, 2012 - In this week's Republican Address, Chairman Doc Hastings explains how President Obama has consistently blocked American energy production. Gasoline prices are on the rise again and the Obama Administration has given no impression that they're serious about lowering our energy costs and creating much-needed American job... More

Committee Takes Bipartisan Vote to Save 7,000 Coal Mining Jobs
Press Release
Feb 29, 2012 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 3409, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act with a bipartisan vote of 26-18. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06), prevents the Obama Administration’s unnecessary and rushed rewrite of a coal mining regulat... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Duncan
Blog
Feb 28, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. Meet Freshman Committee Member Jeff Duncan from South Carolina’s Third Congressional District. Congressman Duncan... More

Local Witnesses Testify to Job Creating and Economic Benefits of Increased Ohio Natural Gas Production
Press Release
Feb 27, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a oversight field hearing in Steubenville, Ohio entitled, “Natural Gas--America’s New Energy Opportunity: Creating Jobs, Energy and Community Growth.” Members of the Committee heard testimony from witnesses expressing their desire for continued production of ... More

Chairman Hastings: American Families Face Rapidly Rising Gas Prices Under Obama Administration Energy Policies
Press Release
Feb 23, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s energy speech: "American families and small businesses are once again suffering from rapidly rising gasoline prices and the Obama Administration’s policies are making it worse. Since Presid... More

San Joaquin Valley Farmers Initially Slated to Get Fraction of Yearly Water Allocations
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Feb 22, 2012 - The Obama Administration’s Bureau of Reclamation today announced that farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley would initially receive an estimated 30 percent of their allocated water supplies for 2012. Despite experiencing near record precipitation last year, farmers and communities once again face the threat of ano... More

Obama Administration's Skyrocketing Gasoline Prices Threaten American Jobs, Economic Recovery
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Feb 21, 2012 - Ripped from the Headlines... Higher gasoline prices could stall recovery, Obama’s re-election, Boston Herald, 2/21/12 “By summer, some analysts said, you could be paying $4 for a gallon of gas, almost as high as the record set in the summer of 2008. A price that high could cripple the still-fragile recovery…The averag... More

Committee Takes Bipartisan Vote to Pass Plan to End Man-Made California Drought, Create Jobs and Ensure Food Security
Press Release
Feb 16, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed H.R. 1837, legislation to prevent future California man-made droughts with a bipartisan vote of 27 to 17. This comprehensive solution will bring jobs and water supply certainty to the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys in California and decrease reliance on foreign foo... More

Committee Passes Secure Rural Schools, PILT Legislation to Create Jobs, Stimulate Rural Economies & Restore Forest Health
Press Release
Feb 16, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed H.R. 4019, the Federal Forest County Revenue, Schools and Jobs Act of 2012, by a vote of 26 to 17. The bill aims to restore economic stability in forested counties that lost valuable revenue used to support schools, infrastructure and emergency services when the timber... More

House Passes Bipartisan American Energy Bill to Create Over a Million Jobs and Lower Energy Prices
Press Release
Feb 16, 2012 - Today the Full House of Representatives passed H.R. 3408, with a bipartisan vote of 237-187. The legislation is a bipartisan plan to expand offshore energy production, open less than three percent of ANWR for oil and natural gas production, encourage the development of 1.5 trillion barrels of oil shale in the Rocky Mou... More

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