TO: All Member Offices, House Natural Resources Committee RE: Natural Resources Committee Recommendations to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction To ensure that all Committee Members are able to participate in making "recommendations for changes in law to reduce the deficit" to the Joint Select Committee to assist it in achieving its goal "to reduce the deficit by at least… Read more »

Reporting H.R. 850 Out of Committee (Passed 30-14. View Roll Call Vote) This bill would allow a 4-lane highway bridge, which connects Minnesota and Wisconsin, to be built over the Lower Saint Croix River. Bishop Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (Agreed to by Voice Vote.) This amendment would include consensus language negotiated with the Senate and require a mitigation package… Read more »

Reporting H.R. 1505 Out of Committee (Passed 26-17. View Roll Call Vote) This bill would prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking actions which impede Border Security from doing their job on federal land within 100 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada. Bishop Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (Agreed to by Voice Vote.) This amendment in the… Read more »

Reporting H.R. 3069 Out of Committee (Passed 29-13. View Roll Call Vote) This bill would allows for the issuance of state and tribal permits to lethally remove increasing predatory, non-ESA listed sea lions that consume thousands of endangered salmon and other fish species in the Columbia River and their tributaries. Bordallo Amendment #002 – Adds Findings to the Bill (Not Agreed to by… Read more »

Reporting H.R. 2915 Out of Committee (Passed 26-17. View Roll Call Vote) This bill repeals the 2009 Stimulus Act’s questionable $3.25 billion Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) loan authority, including the taxpayer bailout provision for failed renewable energy transmission projects. This will save the taxpayer form bearing the burden of another Solyndra like failure. Holt… Read more »

Reporting H.R. 2842 Out of Committee (Passed 30-12. View Roll Call Vote) This bill streamlines burdensome red tape and reduces administrative costs for the installation of increased small canal and pipeline hydropower development projects. Markey Amendment #001 – Duplicative Regulation (Failed 10-28. View Roll Call Vote) This amendment applies the duplicative regulation to the… Read more »

The Full Natural Resources Committee today passed three bills—H.R. 2842, H.R. 2360 and H.R. 2752—to create jobs, produce more American made energy and advance House Republicans' all-of-the-above American Energy Initiative. “Republicans are committed to increasing the use of America’s abundant energy resources to create jobs and grow the economy. These three commonsense measures protect… Read more »

Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 1505, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, by a vote of 26 to 17. The bill prohibits the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using environmental regulations to hinder U.S. Border Patrol from securing our border on federal lands. “H.R. 1505 is a common… Read more »

On Wednesday, October 12th the House Committee on Natural Resources will hold a Full Committee oversight hearing on “One Year after President Obama’s Gulf of Mexico 6-Month Moratorium Officially Lifted: Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy Production and Local Economies.” “Nearly a year ago, the Obama Administration lifted its official offshore moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico… Read more »

Today, the Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on “The President’s New National Ocean Policy - A Plan for Further Restrictions on Ocean, Coastal and Inland Activities.” At the hearing, Members heard about the potential job and economic implications of President Obama’s Executive Order 13547, which creates a new, top-down bureaucracy that could significantly impact the… Read more »