House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today regarding the Democrats’ CLEAR Act - a bill that would kill jobs, raise taxes and increase spending:
Click here to watch the floor speech
“Instead of directly addressing the Gulf oil spill tragedy, Congress is voting this week on legislation, the CLEAR… Read more »
Other Energy Issues Seep into Spill Legislation
July 28, 2010, 7:33PM
Houston Chronicle
Jennifer A. Dlouhy
WASHINGTON — Energy legislation advancing in the Senate would force companies to reveal closely held details about the chemical cocktails they use to extract natural gas from shale rock, imposing the first federal regulation on hydraulic fracturing.
The disclosure provision is… Read more »
Read the full Dear Colleague HERE.
CLEAR Act’s $22 Billion Energy Tax Kills American Jobs, Helps Foreign Oil, Costs Taxpayers Billions in Court Fees
The CLEAR Act imposes a new energy tax costing $22 billion over ten years – with the taxes eventually climbing to nearly $3 billion per year. Specifically, it creates a new $2 per barrel of oil and 20 cents per million BTU of natural gas… Read more »
July 29, 2010
Democrats’ Offshore Oil Spill Bill Makes Significant Changes to Onshore Energy Leasing
Increases onshore energy taxes, threatens onshore energy jobs
Dear Colleague:
In yet another example of House Democrats exploiting the oil spill to pass unrelated legislation, the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) makes fundamental changes to onshore federal energy leasing. This will not only… Read more »
Tomorrow, the House is expected to vote on the Democrats’ so-called energy legislation (H.R. 3534) that will destroy jobs, increase energy costs, and make America more dependent on foreign oil. Read what House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said regarding the devastating impact this bill will have on American families and businesses:
“The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is a… Read more »
CLEAR Act: "House Democrats should ask themselves if they are about to vote for a bill that is simply a setup to enact a cap-and-trade tax into law."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs kept the dream of a cap-and-trade national energy tax alive this week by confirming that it’s still not too late to exploit the tragedy in the Gulf in order to push through this job-killing measure.… Read more »
Read the full Dear Colleague HERE.
A hallmark of this Democrat controlled Congress has been the dramatic increase in spending, and they keep that tradition going strong with the CLEAR Act. The bill includes an over $30 billion increase in new, mandatory spending over the next 30 years for programs that are completely unrelated to the oil spill.
Even more egregious, Democrats have added… Read more »
Although the House is expected to vote tomorrow on “oil spill” legislation (The CLEAR Act), things aren’t going as well over on the other side of the Capitol. According to The Hill:
“Senate Democrats and Republicans appear on a collision course that would sink chances of passing oil-spill and energy legislation amid disagreements over both substance and process.”
House Democrats must be… Read more »
