The Senate Republican Conference will hold a hearing Thursday, September 18, to discuss drilling for offshore domestic energy supplies in an environmentally safe way. Republicans are committed to a balanced approach to solving our nation’s energy crisis that focuses on finding more energy and using less. The hearing will be chaired by Senator Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Don G. Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, will discuss cutting-edge drilling technologies.
David E. Dismukes, associate director and a professor at the Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, will discuss the offshore supply potential.
Other witnesses will discuss environmental safeguards for offshore drilling.
The Gang of 20 proposal needs to be shot down...
Republican Leader, my Congressman and a Great American -- John Boehner -- on the sham No Energy bill nonsense from yesterday:
“I appreciate the announcement from the chair that additional members will be allowed to give one-minutes. After in fact that it was announced earlier that there would be unlimited one-minutes. Then it was announced that we would only have 30 one-minutes on each side and I appreciate the announcement that we’ll have at least 20 more because our members want to speak. And I’ll tell you why.
“When a bill gets filed at 9:45 the night before and then it’s announced it’s going to come to the floor the next morning as the first bill up, a bill that no one has read, written in the dark of night that won’t do a damn thing about American energy. Enough is enough!
“The Speaker of the House said this would be the most open and ethical Congress in history. That we would consider things in a fair and open way. And it’s not going to be considered in a fair and open way. It shows up in the middle of the night, nobody has read the bill and guess what? The Republican Members that represent about 48 percent of the American people – we’re not allowed to offer a substitute. We have no opportunity to offer our American Energy plan that we’ve been on this floor talking about for three months, non-stop. We don’t even get a chance to offer the bill.
“It’s rigged. And the bill that’s coming to the floor is nothing more than hoax on the American people and they will not buy it.”
Rep. Bob Latta on that same bill:
“Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrat leadership produced a sham of an energy bill and tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public who have called for comprehensive energy reform legislation. This bill was produced with no bi-partisan input, committee hearings, or the opportunity for amendments, casting further controversy over the contents of this legislation.
This bill further restricts the responsible recovery of our natural resources both in the outer continental shelf and in ANWR. Furthermore, this bill does not include any provisions for nuclear energy, coal-to-liquid technology, or increased refinement capabilities, all of which would have an immediate effect on lowering energy prices. This bill even goes so far as to raise the cost of electricity through a series of government mandated requirements that power companies would be required to follow.
My constituents and the American public deserve an ‘all of the above’ energy policy which the House Republicans have laid out in H.R. 6566. House Republicans will continue to fight for comprehensive energy reform legislation that our country desperately needs.”
House Democrats have been lying to the American people hoping that we'd stop paying attention. Have we?
