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Chairman Hastings Joins House Republicans to Unveil the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act
Blog
Jun 7, 2012 - Yesterday, Chairman Doc Hastings joined House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and other House Republicans in introducing the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act, a package of American energy production bills, including five from the Natural Resources Committee, that will create new American jobs by streamlining burdensome gover... More

Hastings Joins House Republicans in Introducing the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act
Press Release
Jun 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today joined House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (CA-22) and other House Republicans in introducing the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act, a package of American energy production bills, including five from the Natural Resources Committee, that will create new Am... More

Chairman Hastings Visits Texas for HEAT's American Energy Tour
Press Release
May 24, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today joined Congressman Francisco “Quico” Canseco (TX-23) and Congressman Mike Conaway (TX-11) in Midland, TX for the “2012 American Energy and Jobs Tour: Promoting the Economy Through American Energy” led by the House Energy Action Team (HEAT). The Membe... More

Committee Passes Mineral Production and Indian Land Energy Bills
Press Release
May 16, 2012 - In the spirit of the House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative effort, the House Natural Resources Committee today passed the Natural Strategic and Critical Minerals Protection Act and the Native American Energy Act, with bipartisan support, to expand critical mineral production and empower Indian tribes to increas... More

Committee Passes Three Bills to Expand Onshore Energy Production to Create Jobs, Help Lower Gasoline Prices
Press Release
May 16, 2012 - In the spirit of the House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative effort, the House Natural Resources Committee today passed three bills, with bipartisan support, to expand onshore energy production, lower gasoline prices and create new American jobs. The bills would reduce burdensome government hurdles and streamline... More

Hastings: Obama Administration's Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations will Cost American Jobs and Energy
Press Release
May 4, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the new regulations issued today by the Department of the Interior on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands: “The Obama Administration is imposing more regulation and more red-tape, and the result will be less American j... More

Amodei Introduces Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act
Press Release
Apr 19, 2012 - Today, in the spirit of House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative, Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) introduced H.R. 4402, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012, to allow the United States to more efficiently develop our Nation's strategic and critical minerals, such as rare earth elements, tha... More

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

5 Energy Questions for President Obama
Resourceful Information
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

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

Obama Administration's Skyrocketing Gasoline Prices Threaten American Jobs, Economic Recovery
In Case You Missed It
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

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

Chairman Hastings: Republicans Have Action Plan to Create American Jobs, Expand American Energy Production & Lower Gas Prices
Floor Statements
Feb 15, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 3408, a bill that includes the energy provisions of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act. The bill expands access to both onshore and offshore American energy resources - creati... More

Video Release: Alaskans Discuss Job, Economic Benefits of ANWR Energy Production
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Feb 15, 2012 - Members of the Alaska House of Representatives recently visited Washington, D.C. to advocate for H.R. 7, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. The House will consider the bill this week, which among other provisions, would open less than 3% of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the North Slope to ... More

Gov. Sean Parnell: What's the Hold-Up on Alaskan Oil?
Blog
Feb 10, 2012 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline near Valdez, Alaska Finally, some welcome news from Washington: With a bipartisan voice, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 7, the American Energy Infrastructure & Jobs Act. This bill ties energy production to key projects that would generate well-paying jobs sorely needed for ... More

Obama Administration Announces Plan to Block U.S. Oil Shale Development and U.S. Job Creation
Press Release
Feb 3, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding the draft Bureau of Land Management plan to close public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming to oil shale development: “The distinction between the pro-American job policies of House Republicans and the anti... More

Committee Passes Bipartisan Bill to Create 1.2 Million Jobs, Fund Infrastructure Projects by Reversing President Obama's Offshore Drilling Moratorium
Press Release
Feb 1, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed legislation to open new offshore areas for American energy production with a bipartisan vote of 25 to 19. As a component of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, this bill expands U.S. offshore energy production in order to create over 1.2 million American j... More

Business and Labor Organizations Support Republican Plan to Expand American Energy Production, Create Jobs, and Fund Critical Infrastructure
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Feb 1, 2012 - Organizations representing various sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, and energy are joining multiple labor unions to call for passage of energy portions of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, a common sense Republican plan to expand American energy production, create jobs and fund high-priority i... More

Committee Passes Bipartisan Bill to Open 3% of ANWR for New American Energy Production, Job Creation
Press Release
Feb 1, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed by a bipartisan vote of 29 to 13—26 Republicans and 3 Democrats—legislation to open less than 3% of ANWR to American energy production. This measure is one of the energy components of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, a plan to link expanded energy produ... More

Platts Energy Week Interview with Chairman Doc Hastings
Blog
Jan 30, 2012 - Chairman Doc Hastings sat down with Platts Energy Week to discuss the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, legislation that would link expanded American energy production with high priority infrastructure projects. Chairman Hastings told Platts, "The revenues from this [legislation] will build and maintain our in... More

President Obama's Jobs Council Echoes House Republicans' Call for Increased American Energy Production
Press Release
Jan 17, 2012 - President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness released their “Road Map to Renewal” report on ideas for job creation. The report cited a number of “all-in” energy policy recommendations in order to create American jobs that bear a striking resemblance to the “all-of-the-above” American Energy Initiative promoted... More

New Study Shows Impact of Permitting Slowdown in the Gulf
Blog
Jan 13, 2012 - Quest Offshore Resources, Inc. has released a study highlighting the economic consequences of the slowdown of deepwater and shallow water permitting in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the study, the Administration’s de facto moratorium has cost Americans tens of thousands of good-paying jobs and billions of dollars of... More

New Year, same tricks for Obama Administration's job destroying energy policies
Blog
Jan 10, 2012 - We’re not quite half way through the first month of 2012 and the Obama Administration is already up to their old tricks, playing fast and loose with the facts surrounding their job destroying energy policies. Today, the Department of the Interior sent around a misleading press release to fool the public into believing ... More

Chairman Hastings Statement on November Jobs Report
Press Release
Dec 2, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the November jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “At a time when the American people have suffered under at least a 9 percent unemployment rate for 33 months, any job creation is positive and a step i... More

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