Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) today led the floor debate on H.R. 3408, the PIONEERS Act. The newly-expanded energy bill would open up access to energy reserves in the Western United States, Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, and off-shore. It also includes language requiring the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve the permit for the Keystone Pipeline projet within 30 days. Read more »
Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Chairman of the House subcommitee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today questioned Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar over the Administration's continued efforts to block access to American energy reserves. Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a Full Committee hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2013 Budget for the Department of the Interior. Congressman Paul Gosar D.D.S. (R-AZ) vigorously questioned Secretary Salazar on the administration’s recent actions that have stifled economic development in rural Arizona. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. –During today's debate on H.R. 3408, the PIONEERS Act, Alaskan Congressman Don Young took to the House floor to urge his colleagues to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to development for the good of this nation. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Paul Gosar’s (AZ-01) major job legislation, H.R. 1904, which passed with bipartisan support by the U.S House of Representatives last year, made progress in the U.S. Senate being heard in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011 facilitates a land exchange that will bring nearly 3,700 jobs equating to $220.5 million in annual wages to the state of Arizona. Read more »
Washington, D.C. –Congressman Rick Berg today announced that the House has taken another step to move forward the approval of the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline project. Read more »
Washington, D.C. –The Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, chaired by Alaskan Congressman Don Young, held a legislative hearing on H.R. 3532, the American Indian Empowerment Act of 2011. This bill, introduced by Rep. Young, would increase tribal authority over their own lands – something tribes have wanted for years. Specifically, this bill would allow a tribe to request that the title to its tribal land be taken out of trust and conveyed to the tribe while also ensuring such lands retain their “Indian Country” status, meaning lands would remain inalienable. Read more »
WASHINGTON–Today, U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar released the results of their draft 2012 Programmatic Environment Impact Statement (PEIS). This is a reevaluation of the 2008 PEIS and, if approved, would only make available a mere 461,965 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Utah and other western states for development of Oil Shale and Tar Sands. This is in stark contrast to the 2 million acres that were previously made available. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today questioned Nancy Leppink, the Deputy Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, about a proposed rule widely believed to represent a major regulatory threat to the future of the family farm. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two large-scale and job-creating forest restoration projects in southern and eastern Oregon won approval from the USDA, Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today announced. A third project in central Oregon, approved in 2010, will continue to receive funding. Read more »
