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Bishop on President Obama’s Keystone XL Pipeline Veto

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House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s veto of Keystone XL legislation today.  The legislation was approved earlier this month with bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate and was sent to the President earlier today.  “President Obama has played his final hand on Keystone…

GOP chairman: Interior funding request 'underwhelming'

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On February 24, 2015, Chairman Rob Bishop was interviewed by Timothy Cama with The Hill to discuss Secretary Sally Jewell and the Presidents 2016 budget requests. “The new chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee sees the Interior Department’s budget as a way to inject creative thinking into issues like oil drilling on federal land and offshore…Bishop…

Chairman Bishop Reacts to Department of the Interior’s Proposed Rule for Artic Drilling Standards

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Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement on proposed regulations for exploration and drilling activities on the U.S. Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) announced earlier today by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).  “There’s a reason America has leapfrogged Russia and Saudi Arabia to…

Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe Letter to Chairman Bishop Regarding the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

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TO: The Honorable Rob Bishop, Chairman FROM: Dan Ashe, Director Dear Mr. Chairman, Thank you for your letter dated February 6, 2015, to Secretary Jewell, requesting information about international travel by Department of the Interior (Department) employees and officials related to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).  Your…

Chairman Bishop Reacts to Obama Administration’s Plans to Unilaterally Proclaim Three New National Monuments

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House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) released the following statement after President Obama announced his intentions to unilaterally proclaim three new national monuments using the Antiquities Act of 1906.  “President Obama has sidelined the American public and bulldozed transparency by proclaiming three new national monuments through executive fiat.…

Bishop Lauds Colorado Governor’s Effort to Push Back Against Obama Administration’s Flawed Gunnison Sage Grouse Listing Designation

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House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today issued the following statement in support of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper's (D) lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's decision, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), to list the Gunnison sage grouse as a “Threatened” species and designate more than 1.4 million acres in portions…

Bishop on President Obama’s Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

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House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement upon final passage of the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. House.  The legislation has now been approved with bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate.  “The Hesitator in Chief has lost his last alibi. President Obama must either sign this bipartisan legislation or look…

Chairman Bishop Letter to Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell Regarding the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

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TO: The Honorable Sally Jewell FROM: Rob Bishop, Chairman Dear Secretary Jewell, In March 2013, the United States sent a delegation to the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ("CITES") in Bangkok, Thailand.  The delegation included a number of employees from the Department of the…

America's Arctic blink

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OP-ED: America's Arctic blink The Washington Times Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) February 5, 2015  The response should never be to falter when your enemy stares you down, but that’s just what President Obama has done with OPEC. He sent a signal: America will blink. Last week, the Obama administration issued two edicts that could leave much of our strategic energy resources…

Bishop Praises Senate Approval of Keystone XL

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House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today issued the following statement upon Senate passage of legislation approving the Keystone XL Pipeline: “I applaud my colleagues in the Senate that voted to approve this important energy infrastructure bill, which is long overdue.  At long last, Senator Harry Reid can no longer play offensive lineman for President Obama.…