Following criticism from a range of Congressional Democrats that the Obama Administration has ignored the needs of rural Americans, the White House yesterday announced that:
“President Obama has directed many members of his Cabinet to begin what it describes as a ‘listening tour’ of rural America this summer...”
After House Democrats passed the National Energy Tax… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today after passage of H.R. 2454, the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Legislation:
“Congressional Democrats just dealt a devastating blow to America’s already fragile economy. History will show that in the middle of a serious recession, Speaker Pelosi’s number one priority was to… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) spoke on the House floor today urging Members to vote against the Democrats’ National Energy Tax that will decimate America’s economy. Full video and text of the speech follows:
Click here to watch the floor speech
“Madame Speaker, this bill was written in a fantasyland where unemployment isn’t reaching 10… Read more »
A Vote of “Historic Proportions?” We Agree.
Today, President Obama said:
“Right now, the House of Representatives is moving towards a vote of historic proportions….”
We agree.
When Speaker Pelosi holds a vote tomorrow on the National Energy Tax bill (H.R. 2454) – it will be a vote of historic proportions.
Unfortunately, that’s because history will show that as America’s… Read more »
Today, after the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed that the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 5.5 percent from January to March, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding how the Democrats’ National Energy Tax bill (H.R. 2454) will further decimate America’s economy:
“The news that America’s… Read more »
Ranking Republican
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
On Monday, Democrat Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released an updated 1,200 page National Energy Tax bill. Unfortunately, the bill continues to contain a variety of measures that will devastate our economy and worsen the recession.
In addition to… Read more »
On June 22, 2009, House Democrat Leaders released an updated 1,200 page Waxman-Markey “Cap and Tax” bill (H.R. 2454) that is expected to come to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as early as Friday, June 26th.
In addition to forcing a massive new National Energy Tax upon the American people, buried in this legislation are provisions that impose even more economic punishment… Read more »
Hastings: Royalty Reform Will Be a Burden on Producers
By Rep. Doc Hastings
Roll Call
June 22, 2009
The future of American energy development is at a crossroads. While we all recognize the need to have an affordable and stable energy supply, agreeing on the best path toward achieving this goal is not simple.
Do we take the path toward a comprehensive strategy that promotes clean,… Read more »
Ranking Member Hastings highlights the green tabs in the 1,000 page
cap-and-trade bill that mark all the provisions under the jurisdiction
of the House Natural Resources Committee.
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after joining seven other Committee Ranking Members in a press conference to oppose efforts… Read more »
Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy released a report entitled “Taxing Our Way to Energy Insecurity Again,” which examines the impact of proposals included in the Administration’s budget and the Democrat Natural Resources Committee draft “energy” legislation that would levy billions of dollars in new taxes and fees on the oil and gas industry.
This… Read more »
