Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on H.R. 5406 (Rep. Kristi Noem, R-SD), the Helping to Ensure Accountability, Leadership, and Trust in Tribal Healthcare Act (HEALTTH Act), highlighting the need to reform healthcare in Indian Country. The bill would improve access to tribal healthcare by reforming a range of medical care and… Read more »
Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) appointed Committee members to serve on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 (H.R.4909) conference committee, including Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA) and Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-NV).
“Through this conference process we have an opportunity to address a range of existing regulatory and land-use failures… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing to hear from state and local representatives on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft Planning 2.0 Rule. This draft rule would dramatically shift resource management planning away from local communities to bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Clarke, Director of the Utah Public Lands Policy… Read more »
Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released the finalized safety regulations for Arctic offshore drilling for both the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement:
“This President continually gives Putin the upper hand. While other nations develop their offshore… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on H.R. 5577, introduced by Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), the “Innovation in Offshore Leasing Act.”
H.R. 5577, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), modernizes the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) offshore leasing process through the use of internet-based oil and natural gas… Read more »
Today, the House passed H.R. 4582 (Rep. Jeff Denham, R-CA), the “Save Our Salmon Act,” by voice vote. The legislation will exclude striped bass from the fish doubling requirement and other provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, eliminating the ongoing federal conflict between protecting striped bass and endangered salmon in California.
Contradicting federal statutes… Read more »
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3844 (Rep. Jody Hice, R-GA), the “Bureau of Land Management Foundation Act,” by voice vote. H.R. 3844 is part of a three-bill package developed by the Committee on Natural Resources to comprehensively address the existing funding, technical and legal impediments to reclaim abandoned mine lands (AML).
H.R. 3844 establishes a new… Read more »
Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) released a final regulation on valuating royalties from oil, natural gas and coal produced on federal and tribal lands. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement:
“Don't be fooled. This rule is not about 'protecting taxpayers'. It’s a costly attack on energy development. It trades market… Read more »
Today, the U.S. Senate passed S. 2328, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), with a bipartisan vote of 68-30. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement:
“With a decade-long recession, worsening humanitarian conditions, a mass exodus of its residents and a looming financial collapse, Puerto Rico is in dire straits. Inaction by Congress… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on the lack of enforcement and accountably from the Obama Administration in response to a growing number of reports of unethical and criminal conduct at the Department of the Interior (DOI).
Since last month’s subcommittee hearing on the “culture of corruption” at DOI, the Office of Inspector General (OIG)… Read more »
