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Chairmen Question Obama Administration on Mailing Out $$$$$$$
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Mar 22, 2012
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Earlier this week, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Water & Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04) sent letters to the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of Management and Budget requesting information on the use of American tax dollars to pay for a controversial Departm...
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BUDGET WATCH: President's Budget Increases Spending for Government Land Acquisition
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Feb 15, 2012
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President Obama’s FY2013 budget proposal released Monday includes $450 million to buy more federal land through the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Despite the Federal government’s ballooning $15 trillion debt, the President is proposing a $160 million spending increase (58 percent) for government land acquisition co...
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BUDGET WATCH: President's Budget Shows Declining Revenues from Offshore Drilling
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Feb 14, 2012
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Facts are stubborn things and the facts in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget regarding future lease sales for offshore energy reflect this President’s true position on expanding offshore energy production. The five year offshore lease plan implemented under the previous Administration is soon to expire and be r...
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Budget Watch: Over $60 Billion in American Energy Tax and Fee Increases
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Feb 14, 2011
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In his Fiscal Year 2012 budget, President Obama doubles down on his Administration’s anti-energy agenda by imposing over $60 billion in tax and fee increases over ten years on American energy production. With gasoline prices steadily on the rise, this Administration should be looking to promote domestic production, not...
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Budget Watch: Higher Taxes, Higher Energy Prices, Fewer Jobs
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Feb 1, 2010
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Although the President regularly talks about the need for comprehensive energy production, his FY 2011 budget includes nearly $40 billion in direct tax and fee increases on the American oil, natural gas and coal industries. This is in addition to the cap-and-trade National Energy Tax, which would raise $870 billion in ...
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President’s Budget Plan: Fewer Energy Jobs, Higher Energy Prices
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Feb 1, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s FY 2011 budget: “Once again, the President’s budget contains page after page of taxes on oil and natural gas that will reduce American energy production and destroy American jobs when...
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Five Months After Stimulus, Interior Department Has Paid Out 0.4% of Stimulus Funds
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Jul 23, 2009
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Tomorrow, Friday, July 24th, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will provide a progress report to the House Budget Committee on how stimulus funds are being spent by the Department of the Interior. Hopefully, the Secretary will explain why out of the $3 billion allocated to the Department, only $310 million (10%) ha...
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100 DAYS OF SPENDING LATER, STILL NO TRANSPARENCY OR SPECIFIC PROOF OF JOB CREATION
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May 27, 2009
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As the Administration celebrates the first 100 days of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings sent the attached letter to Dr. Rowan Gould, Acting Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), to request that the Department of the Interior provid...
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