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Public comments period ends in April, Mullin stresses need for input from Second District residents. Muskogee – March 13th 2013 - U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (OK-2) announced today he is making the addresses available for citizens to make public comments on the Keystone XL project. Read more »

Congressman Mike Pompeo, R-Kansas, issued the following statement on Chairman Scalise’s resolution to oppose taxes on carbon emissions: Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT' Thompson, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry, held a public hearing to examine how the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is managing the National Forest System (NFS) and how this management affects rural communities. USFS Chief Tom Tidwell and Ken Kane, McKean County, Pa., President of Generations Forestry, were among the witnesses testifying. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s been 1,636 days since the permit for building the Keystone XL pipeline was submitted to President Obama for approval. Congressman Steve Daines today took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to call for President Obama to expeditiously approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Read more »

Washington, DC (March 13, 2013) – Today, U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce announced that he has joined with U.S. Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-03) as a cosponsor of H.R. 818, the Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Daines today announced that he has been selected to join the House Energy Action Team (HEAT), a select group of House members charged with leading House energy policy efforts. Read more »

WASHINGTON – Representative Lee Terry (R-NE) today delivered the following testimony on the need to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline and it’s importance to U.S.-Canada relations to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Daines announced today that he has helped introduce legislation that will provide Montana farmers and ranchers with relief from costly and burdensome Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fuel storage regulations. Daines serves as an original co-sponsor of the Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship (FUELS) Act, which eases the EPA’s Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rules for small farmers and ranchers by modifying the exemption level to be more reflective of a producer’s spill risk and financial resources. Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today outlined a new path forward on the Keystone XL pipeline, releasing a discussion draft of legislation that will remove the project’s fate from the president’s hands and clear away the roadblocks preventing construction of the pipeline. The draft legislation, authored by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), will eliminate the need for a Presidential Permit and find that the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) issued by the Secretary of State on August 26, 2011, shall satisfy all NEPA requirements. The legislation also limits the legal challenges that can be brought against the project to prevent further unnecessary delays. Read more »

Canada and the United States are each other’s most important trading partners, sharing a 5,500-mile border and close ties in culture, language and values. We are vital allies and friends. In 2010, our bilateral trade was close to $645 billion, which means more than $1.7 billion worth of goods and services cross the Canada-U.S. border every single day. Canada is the United States’s largest supplier of crude oil and refined products, natural gas, electricity and uranium. It is especially important to the U.S. that Canada has always been a reliable and secure energy supplier. Read more »