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"The Department of Homeland Security has the specific responsibility to secure the key resources and critical infrastructure in the United States, to include power production, generation and distribution systems. Yet, eleven years after this job description was enacted our nation's most critical infrastructure - and the systems that more than 300 Million Americans depend upon every day for basic activities - are still very vulnerable to large scale blackouts. Read more »

WASHINGTON— Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) stressed the importance of surface water storage in Colorado and other Western states today during a Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power hearing entitled, A Roadmap for Increasing our Water and Hydropower Supplies: Read more »

WASHINGTON – During today’s House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation hearing on Threats, Intimidation and Bullying by Federal Land Managing Agencies, witnesses told Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has also attempted to hijack privately held water rights. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Daines today joined several thousand coal miners, union members and energy and manufacturing workers to protest President Obama’s war on coal and job-killing regulatory policies. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) spoke at the American Energy Jobs Rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where thousands of people from across the country gathered in defense of the mining industry. Miners, plant workers and concerned citizens came to Washington to show support for coal and opposition to President Obama’s radical agenda. After the rally, Rep. Gosar issued the following statement: Read more »

WASHINGTON–Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to solicit input from stakeholders in rural communities that will suffer the greatest impact from the Administration’s proposed job-killing regulations on power plants. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Chair of the House Republican Conference, released the following statement regarding the memorandum from the Department of Energy (DOE) on the Bonneville Power Association (BPA). Read more »

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation that requires the Army Corps of Engineers to establish procedures to better communicate with the public when there is a high risk of flooding on bodies of water it manages, including the Missouri River. The provision, taken from legislation authored by Rep. Kristi Noem, was included in the Water Resources Reform and Development Act. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Chair of the House Republican Conference, released the following statement regarding the memorandum from the Department of Energy (DOE) on the Bonneville Power Association (BPA). Read more »

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson voted last night for H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013. H.R. 3080 authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out its mission to develop, maintain, and support the Nation’s vital port and waterways infrastructure needs, and support effective and targeted flood protection and environmental restoration needs. Read more »