Getting the Gulf Coast back to work
April 2, 2011
The Times-Picayune Op-Ed
By Rep. Doc Hastings
As gasoline prices continue to surge towards $4 a gallon and unemployment lingers near 9 percent, Americans are seeing the consequences of the Obama administration's policies that have prevented access to our own American energy sources.
Despite President Obama's talk of increasing… Read more »
Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the impact of rising gasoline prices on American businesses and families. Republicans on the Committee stressed the need to develop our American resources to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and create jobs. Witnesses at the hearing discussed job loss, increased operation costs, and diminishing fiscal health due to the… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s energy address:
“The President today announced a goal to cut U.S. oil imports by one-third. I share that goal and believe it’s crucial to our national security. In fact, just yesterday I introduced legislation that would achieve a one-third decline in oil imports by… Read more »
At today’s Full Committee hearing with Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) Director Michael Bromwich, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following remarks on the Department of the Interior’s report produced yesterday, at the request of the President, on the status of U.S. energy leases. In the report, DOI invents new… Read more »
In a press conference earlier this month to deflect criticism on rising gasoline prices, President Obama asked the Department of the Interior (DOI) to produce a report on the status of U.S. energy leases. DOI yesterday produced that report, which invents new definitions in order to generate headlines that two-thirds of offshore leases are “inactive” – a claim that President Obama will… Read more »
Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) at a press conference today announced three separate bills to expand offshore energy production in order to create jobs, lower energy costs, and improve national security by lessening our dependence on foreign energy. The following are Chairman Hastings’ prepared remarks from today’s press conference:
“House Republicans… Read more »
March 29, 2011
Dear Colleague,
House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative is an ongoing effort to expand American energy production to create American jobs and to stop the Obama Administration policies that are raising energy prices.
As Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, I’m focused on increasing energy production offshore and on federal lands. Today, I am introducing three… Read more »
As part of House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today introduced three separate bills to expand offshore energy production in order to create jobs, lower energy costs, generate revenue to help pay down the national debt, and improve national security by lessening our dependence on foreign energy.
Chairman Hastings is… Read more »
