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Oversight and Investigations

Law Enforcement Organizations, Property Rights Advocates and Agriculture Groups Call for Passage of Border Security Legislation

| Posted in Blog
Tags: Oversight and Investigations, Border Security, Wild Lands

Multiple national and local groups from across the country have come together to call for the passage of H.R. 1505, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act. Led by National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), H.R. 1505 would prohibit the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using…

Hastings: Obama Administration Once Again Blocks U.S. Energy Production, Costs American Jobs

| Posted in Press Release
Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Oversight and Investigations, Energy, Job Creation, Minerals

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement to impose a 20-year ban on uranium mining on one million acres of federal land in Arizona: “The Obama Administration is putting politics above American jobs and American energy security by blocking mining on what is the…

Chairman Hastings Letter to Committee Member Mark Amodei on Subcommittee Assignments

| Posted in Letters
Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Oversight and Investigations

Dear Mr. Amodei: By this letter, I am appointing you to serve on the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands (ranking after Ms. Noem) and the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (ranking after Mr. Johnson of Ohio). These appointments are effective immediately. Read the entire letter HERE.