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Hastings Issues Statement Regarding Biden Event on Green Jobs

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Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Administration's green jobs event: "Today, the Obama Administration is holding another high-level event to unveil a report about its efforts to create green jobs. Unfortunately, away from the spotlight, the Administration continues to quietly undermine almost every…

Another Postcard from the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf

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Click to enlarge Background: A Postcard from the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, June 2, 2009. On October 9, 2009 the White House announced that President Obama and Cabinet Members will travel to New Orleans on Thursday, October 15. In August, the Wall Street Journal reported that “the U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil…

Hastings Statement on the Administration’s Decision to Further Delay Energy Production and Job Creation in Utah

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s announcement that only 17 out of 77 parcels of land in Utah will be leased for oil and gas production: “With unemployment near 10 percent, it’s astounding that the Obama Administration is once again blocking American energy…

Hastings Highlights the Need for an All-of-the-Above Energy Plan on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

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Click here to watch Highlights: The Obama Administration’s Hypocrisy on All-of-the-Above Energy Development “After Americans experienced four dollar gasoline last summer, there was a larger understanding that we need to utilize the resources we have here within our country -- namely, the Outer Continental Shelf and federal lands and in Alaska. When this administration came in, the…

Hastings Statement on October Unemployment Report

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Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Department of Labor’s report that the U.S. economy lost nearly 263,000 jobs in September, raising the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent: “Unemployment in parts of the U.S. energy sector, including in the mining, oil and gas industries, has soared to double digits.1 …

Utah Congressional Delegation Expresses Bipartisan Opposition to America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act

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Today, House Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined the entire Utah Congressional delegation in opposing the America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 (H.R. 1925) – a bill that would lock up 9.5 million acres of land in Utah and block energy development, job creation and public land access.  Of the 146 cosponsors of the bill, not a single one is from the state of…

Hastings Statement on Kerry-Boxer National Energy Tax

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding the National Energy Tax legislation introduced by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA): “Since the House passed the National Energy Tax bill in June and sent it to the Senate, America’s unemployment rate has risen from 9.4 percent to 9.7…

Offshore Drilling Ban Lifted Last Year, But Salazar Says Administration May Not Open Any New Areas To Drilling Until 2012

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement today regarding reports that the Obama Administration may not complete a new Outer Continental Shelf lease plan until 2012: “Yesterday, during Secretary Salazar’s testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee, Republicans repeatedly asked him for specific details on his…

Republican Committee Members Urge Democrat Leaders to Drop Roadblock to Energy Bill, Support Republican “All-of-the-Above” Energy Plan

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Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) and other Republican committee members issued the following statements after the second hearing on the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534). This bill would establish more roadblocks on the road to American energy production and job creation. “Before we know it, the American…

Hastings Opening Statement at Full Committee Hearing on CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534)

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee hearing on The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534): “The specific topic of today’s hearing is H.R. 3534.  Under the schedule set by Chairman Rahall, Secretary Salazar is just the first of many witnesses that the…