Dear Co-Chairs Hensarling and Murray:
The Natural Resources Committee is committed to addressing our Nation's record debt and deficit levels and doing its part to contribute to the Joint Select Committee's efforts to cut at least $1.5 trillion in federal govemment spending from Fiscal Year 2012 to Fiscal Year 2021. Our growing debt stands in the way of long-term job creation and our… Read more »
Dear Mr. Secretary:
On September 28, 2011, the Committee once again wrote you to request that the Department of the Interior (DOI) provide documents and information relating to the Committee's investigation into whether senior officials of DOI, in an effort to help justify their decision to impose a 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, misrepresented… Read more »
Dear Mr. Secretary:
On September 28, 2011, the Committee once again wrote you to request that the Department of the Interior (DOI) provide documents and information related to DOI's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement's (OSM) rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule (Rule). The Committee requested that documents related to OSM's concerns, discussions, comments or… Read more »
The House Natural Resources Committee today held an oversight hearing on “One Year after President Obama’s Gulf of Mexico 6-Month Moratorium Officially Lifted: Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy Production and Local Economies.” A year after the official moratorium was lifted in the Gulf, permitting, energy production and economic activities still have not returned to… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today delivered the following statement at the Full Committee oversight hearing on “One Year after President Obama’s Gulf of Mexico 6-Month Moratorium Lifted: Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy Production and Local Economies.”
“In May 2010, shortly after the tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, the… Read more »
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 regarding hydraulic fracturing. In the spirit of transparency and full… Read more »
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.” Chairman Hastings first wrote Secretary Salazar a letter on December 1,… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of Labor released the September jobs report:
“After a horrendous August, where the economy saw a net total of zero jobs created, September’s numbers weren’t much better. The unemployment rate is continuing to hold steady above 9 percent while President Obama campaigns on… Read more »
TO: All Member Offices, House Natural Resources Committee
RE: Natural Resources Committee Recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
To ensure that all Committee Members are able to participate in making "recommendations for changes in law to reduce the deficit" to the Joint Select Committee to assist it in achieving its goal "to reduce the deficit by at least… Read more »
Reporting H.R. 850 Out of Committee (Passed 30-14. View Roll Call Vote)
This bill would allow a 4-lane highway bridge, which connects Minnesota and Wisconsin, to be built over the Lower Saint Croix River.
Bishop Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (Agreed to by Voice Vote.)
This amendment would include consensus language negotiated with the Senate and require a mitigation package… Read more »
