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Democrats Pass Stimulus II, Throw Millions of More Dollars at Departments and Agencies with Unspent Stimulus Funds

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding passage of the Democrats’ Stimulus Part II: “Once again, Speaker Pelosi, President Obama and Democrats in Congress have decided that more reckless government spending is the answer to our country’s problems. Clearly, they have not learned the lesson from the first failed…

Hastings: President’s Energy and Climate Change Policies Will Destroy Jobs, Strangle Economic Growth and Hinder Recovery

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after joining members of the American Energy Solution Group in a press conference to oppose the President’s job-killing energy policies and express concerns (see letter) with his upcoming trip to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen: “Earlier this morning, President Obama…

Hastings Calls on Administration to Replace Summits, Endless Rhetoric & Fuzzy Math with Proven Job Creation Policies

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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 November unemployment report: “Yesterday, we witnessed the White House ‘jobs summit’- a high profile event that unfortunately looked more like a shiny object meant to distract the American people from the Administration’s failed stimulus and…

If Energy Officials Want to Attend Today's White House Event, They'll Have to Crash It

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As the White House’s “jobs-but-not-job-creation-summit” kicks off, I wanted to point out a few recent articles that clearly demonstrate why the President made a serious mistake by not inviting officials from American energy companies to attend today’s event and offer their ideas. After all, the oil and natural gas industry supports 9.2 million American jobs and adds more than $1…

Republicans Propose A Dozen Bright Ideas to President Obama for All-of-the-Above American Energy Job Creation

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Tomorrow, President Obama will host a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth at the White House where he promised he will “consider all good ideas to encourage and accelerate job creation.” However, it appears that the White House neglected to invite a wide range of officials from America’s all-of-the-above energy sectors to attend this event. Since a diverse group of American energy…

A Postcard from All-of-the-Above American Energy to President Obama in Seoul, South Korea

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Click to enlarge Background: The Energy Information Administration reports that: “With limited domestic energy resources, South Korea is almost entirely dependent on imports to meet its energy consumption needs.” On November 11th, the White House announced that President Obama would hold a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth on December 3rd. However, the Associated…

A Postcard from U.S. Electricity to President Obama in Beijing

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Click to enlarge Background: Yesterday, during a town hall in Shanghai, President Obama said that the United States and China should be held to different standards for reducing their emissions since China (the world’s highest CO2 emitter) has “much more poverty”: “There's going to be a Copenhagen conference in December in which world leaders are trying to find a recipe so…

A Postcard from U.S. Refineries to President Obama in Singapore

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Click to enlarge Background: The House Republican Conference confirms that “the newest significant refinery began operating in 1977.” The Energy Information Administration’s profile on Singapore. The Congressional Research Service reports: “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shut down oil and gas production from the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of…