Rep. Frank Lucas (OK), Rep. Sam Graves (MO), and Rep. Doc Hastings (WA), co-chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, will host a forum to discuss Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and initiatives that are hindering job creation and economic expansion in America’s rural communities. The forum, entitled “The EPA’s Assault on Rural America: How New Regulations and… Read more »
Tomorrow is National Public Lands Day—a day that should be celebrated with family trips to all of our public lands. Unfortunately, safe family trips to some of our public lands on the southern and northern border are impossible.
Most Americans don’t realize that many of our public lands along both the northern and southern U.S. borders are being destroyed due to environmental… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled “A Pledge to America,” a new governing agenda built by listening to the American people that offers immediate solutions to create jobs, cut spending, reform Congress, and keep our nation secure.
“The principles outlined in ‘A Pledge to America’ draw a… Read more »
The Real Gulf Disaster
The Wall Street Journal
September 22, 2010
Editorial
On Sunday Federal spill-response chief Thad Allen declared BP's ruptured well "effectively dead." Now if only Gulf residents weren't stuck coping with the disaster the government created after the accident—namely, the federal drilling moratorium.
The White House has been struggling to justify this ban,… Read more »
Today, the House Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 6107, the American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Firm Power Customer Protection and Government Accountability Act of 2010.
The bill, sponsored by Ranking Committee Republican Doc Hastings (WA-04), would eliminate the taxpayer bailout provision included in the “stimulus bill” that gave… Read more »
Today, all 20 Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter to Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) highlighting the recent violence and increase of criminal activities on public lands near the U.S.-Mexico border. The letter cites many media accounts of violence, crime and other illegal activities and asks for a Full Committee hearing to examine potential causes and… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement on today’s report by Louisiana State University Endowed Chair of Banking and economist Dr. Joseph R. Mason on the economic impacts of President Obama’s proposed tax increases on oil and gas. The report concluded that the President’s proposed tax hikes will cost over 154,000 jobs by 2011,… Read more »
AP ENTERPRISE: A look at who got gov't Gulf work
Associated Press
Sharon Theimer
Monday, September 13, 2010
WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former… Read more »
EPA made right move on lead issue (AZ Republic Editorial 8/31/10)
Gun owners dodge the bullet ban (Washington Times Editorial 8/30/10)
EPA rejects traditional ammo ban petition claiming lack of jurisdiction
(Phoenix Examiner 8/28/10)
EPA caves: Rejects petition to ban lead in ammo (American Thinker 8/28/10)
EPA Denies Petition to Ban Traditional Ammunition… Read more »
