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Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Lamborn
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Dec 8, 2011 - 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 Job Watch series this week with Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chairman Do... More

Washington Examiner: Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs
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Nov 18, 2011 - Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs By Joel Gehrke Washington Examiner November 18, 2011 President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in defer... More

Committee Passes Bill to Reorganize Interior Department’s Offshore Energy Agencies
Press Release
Nov 17, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 3404, a bill introduced by Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) to formally abolish the former Minerals Management Service (MMS) and create three separate offshore agencies to ensure robust and safe American energy production to create jobs and strengthen national secur... More

Committee Approves Amendment to Keep OSM and BLM Separate, Independent Agencies
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Nov 17, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved an amendment by voice vote, to H.R. 3404, offered by Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06). The amendment was a rejection of the Obama Administration’s recently announced intentions to merge the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) and the Bureau of Land M... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Amodei
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Nov 14, 2011 - 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 Job Watch series this week with Freshman Committee Member Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02). H... More

Subcommittee to Hold Legislative Hearing on Four Bills to Expand American Energy Production, Create New American Jobs
Committee Action
Nov 11, 2011 - On Friday, November 18, 2011, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a legislative hearing on four bills to expand American onshore and offshore energy production and create new American jobs. The hearing will include the American-Made Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act to be introduced by Rep. Stev... More

Chairman Hastings Statement on October Jobs Report
Press Release
Nov 4, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the October jobs report was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The job numbers released today are hardly encouraging to the thousands and thousands of people still struggling to find work. While President Ob... More

Witnesses Testify on Importance of American Uranium Production
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Nov 3, 2011 - Today, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a legislative hearing on four bills including H.R. 3155, the “Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011.” Introduced by Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02), H.R. 3155 would prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from banning uranium mining... More

House Passes Bill to Create American Jobs and Expand American Copper Production
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Oct 26, 2011 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, with a bipartisan vote of 235-186. Sponsored by Natural Resources Committee Member Paul Gosar (AZ-01), H.R. 1904 authorizes a fair value land exchange that will unlock the third largest undeveloped copper res... More

Chairman Hastings: Passage of H.R. 1904 Will Expand U.S. Minerals Production to Create Jobs, Strengthen Economy
Floor Statements
Oct 26, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement (as prepared for delivery) on the House floor in support of H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011. This bill will create thousands of jobs, generate billions in revenue and strengthen our nati... More

Organizations Support H.R. 1904, The Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011
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Oct 26, 2011 - Numerous groups across the country are calling for passage of H.R. 1904, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, Republican legislation that will create thousands of good-paying jobs, strengthen our national security and provide billions of dollars in revenue to the federal government. The bill exchange... More

Energy and Minerals Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Obama Administration’s Proposed Rule to Block Coal Mining, Destroy Jobs
Committee Action
Oct 26, 2011 - On Friday, November 4th, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hearing on “Jobs at Risk: Waste and Mismanagement by the Obama Administration in Rewriting the Stream Buffer Zone Rule.” The Subcommittee previously held an oversight hearing on the issue in Charleston, WV, where Committee members hea... More

H.R. 1904 Creates New American Jobs, Strengthens National Security
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Oct 25, 2011 - Tomorrow, the House will vote on H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, which authorizes a fair value land exchange that would open up the third largest undeveloped copper resource in the world. The bill will create thousands of jobs, generate billions in revenue and strengthen our nationa... More

Organizations Supporting the Passage of H.R. 1904
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Oct 25, 2011 - American Clean Energy Resources Trust American Supply Association Americans for Limited Government Americans for Prosperity Arizona Chamber of Commerce Arizona Chapter of Associated General Contractors Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Arizona Manufacturers Council Arizona Rock Products Association Associated General Contra... More

Chairman Hastings Letter Requesting Secretary Salazar Testify Before Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing
Letters
Oct 11, 2011 - Dear Mr. Secretary: Last week, at an event sponsored by Christian Science Monitor, you announced that the Department of the Interior plans to issue rules regarding hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, within a "month or so." In your comments, you also reiterated your belief in transparency and full disclosure regardi... More

Chairman Hastings Asks Salazar to Testify Before Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing
Press Release
Oct 11, 2011 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent the following letter to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him once again to testify before the Committee regarding the Department’s plans to issue rules on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands within the next “month or so.” C... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Gosar
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Oct 3, 2011 - 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. Watch Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-01) discuss his bill, H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation A... More

Delays By Obama Administration in Oil Shale Production Hinder Job Creation, Economic Growth
Press Release
Aug 24, 2011 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight field hearing in Grand Junction, Colorado entitled “American Jobs and Energy Security: Domestic Oil Shale, the Status of Research, Regulation and Roadblocks.” U.S. oil shale has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, lowe... More

Committee Unanimously Approves Bill to Strengthen and Advance National Minerals Policy
Press Release
Jul 20, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved by voice vote H.R. 2011, the “National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act of 2011.” As part of House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative, this bill aims to improve our American mineral policy by coordinating a government-wide survey of Americ... More

Natural Resources Committee Passes Rep. Gosar Land Exchange Bill to Create Jobs, Increase Economic Activity
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Jul 19, 2011 - Last Wednesday during a Full Committee markup, the Natural Resources Committee continued its push to pass job-creating legislation to help get the economy back on track through the responsible development of our resources on public lands. Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ-01) introduced and passed out of Committee H.R. 1904, the Sou... More

Natural Resources and Agriculture Subcommittees Highlight Need for Increased American Natural Gas Production, Job Creation
Press Release
Jul 8, 2011 - The Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and the Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry today held a joint oversight hearing on “Challenges facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land Management/U.S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on Fede... More

Reps. Hastings and Lamborn Op-Ed in The Denver Post: The importance of domestic minerals production
Op-Eds and Speeches
Jun 8, 2011 - The importance of domestic minerals production June 8, 2011 Denver Post Rep. Doc Hastings and Rep. Doug Lamborn Have you ever stopped to think about what allows your cell phone battery to keep a charge or how a hybrid vehicle can combine a gasoline engine and battery power to yield 51 miles per gallon? These and count... More

Lamborn, Hastings Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Revitalize American Minerals Policy and Production
Press Release
May 26, 2011 - Today, House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Chairman Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and 20 bipartisan cosponsors introduced H.R. 2011, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act of 2011. As part of the American Energy Initiative, this bill will... More

Experts Agree: United States’ Dependence on Foreign Strategic and Critical Minerals Costs Jobs, Threatens National Security
Press Release
May 24, 2011 - Today, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing titled “Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy: Domestic Minerals Supplies and Demands in a time of Foreign Supply Disruptions.” Mineral production is a key economic activity that creates jobs and improves our national security. Strategic and ... More

The Importance of Critical Minerals in Our Everyday Lives
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May 23, 2011 - The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hearing tomorrow to examine our domestic supplies of strategic and critical minerals and the growing need to develop our own resources to improve national security and further our energy independence. Critical and strategic minerals are fundamental components... More

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