March 12, 2009, 8:12pm
Rep. Rob Wittman praised today’s House’s passage of a water-quality improvement bill and lawmakers’ decision to include his language for restoring the Chesapeake Bay. “We are truly at a tipping point” for the bay,” the Virginia Republican said. “If we don’t act now and act forcefully, we chance losing the bay forever.”
Categories: Virginia, Environment, Natural Resources, Rob Wittman
March 4, 2009, 10:15pm
Wanna know what lawmakers did today? What they said in committee, on the floor, on the news shows and elsewhere? What articles, shows, Internet videos and more grabbed their attention? Who sniped at whom, and why? Get the inside scoop at “Hill Tweet News,” a Twitter-based service of AirCongress.
Here are today’s Top 5 tweets, followed by the rest of today’s edition of “Hill Tweet News“:
Categories: Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Security, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Robert Menendez, Environment, Budget, Economy, Natural Resources, Claire McCaskill, Hill Tweet News
September 3, 2008, 8:26pm
ST. PAUL — Michael Williams, the chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, is a rising star in the Republican Party and one of its premier experts on energy policy. That explains his presence at the podium here at the Republican convention today.
Williams used his time to drive home the point that energy security and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive. Here is an excerpt of his speech:
For energy security, we need to explore more, conserve wisely and aggressively pursue alternatives. We can responsibly drill for oil and natural gas here in America and protect God’s creation.
These things are not mutually exclusive. America cannot say no to clean coal … and no to nuclear power … and no to offshore exploration. That may be good for Saudi Sheikhs, but it’s bad for American families.
Categories: Texas, Environment, Energy, Republican Convention
April 29, 2008, 8:25pm
A Senate Republican committee leader today blamed an ongoing global food crisis on “decades of misguided environmental and energy policies.”
James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said worldwide access to food is declining and prices are skyrocketing because of meddling politicians bureaucrats in Washington who have been afraid of expanding energy supplies.
Current policy that has led to the consumption of more corn as ethanol-based fuel rather than as food “has skewed common sense and has violated the principles of a sound energy policy,” Inhofe said on the Senate floor.
He urged Congress to revisit its December 2007 biofuel mandate and admit that it made a mistake by implementing it, and he said the Environmental Protection Agency should review its statutory options to relieve the impact of the mandate.
Categories: Oklahoma, James Inhofe, Agriculture, Environment, Energy, Foreign Affairs
April 11, 2008, 11:55pm
House Republicans today interrupted the Democrats’ debate on a bill to protect beaches in order to badger the Democrats about their failure to pass a promised “commonsense plan” to lower oil prices. The office of House Minority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., compiled a video that recapped the floor confrontation.
Categories: Missouri, Democrats, Environment, Energy, Economy, Roy Blunt
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