Reatest number for the long run. Pinchot also wrote that, conservation is the application common n sense to the problems for the common good. Today aker, this bill lacks common sense. Slope of to the north alaska. We can develop clean, safe, energy in the world and and rve our public lands the environment. I would argue its because of our technology and innovation clean fuels like natural gas has allowed the nited states to decrease our global Greenhouse Gas emissions, more than any other country in the world. At this bill today and we look at the history of 1980, a appened, in democraticheld Congress Passed lands ska National Conservation act, and president carter signed it into law. Act set aside more than 1. 5 million acres for responsible anwr. D Gas Development in itself, nearly 20 million acres in total. Such a large commitment, less than a decade after the arab and embargo, made logical sense time. It was 2018 when Congress Approved a limited exploration acres in anwr. 0 than. 001 itutes less and. 01. In the case of relidge rance from russia and mr. Young i yield the gentleman one more minute. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Westerman members of this house have a choice. The decision, mr. Speaker, is one that demands commonsense. It is in the common interest to protect domestic energy, realistically 2,000 acres is a small price to pay for our security. I urge my colleagues to vote or the greatest good, greatest number, and vote for the long run. I urge my colleagues to vote for common sense and vote no on h. R. 1146. Yield back. The chair does the gentleman from alaska reserve . Mr. Young i still reserve. The chair the gentleman from alaska from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman thank you, mr. Speaker. Id like to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from new mexico, the chair of the public land subcommittee of the Natural Resources committee, representative haaland. Ms. Haaland thank you. Mr. Chairman as a 35th generation american, i rise in support of h. R. 1146. The Arctic Refuge was setaside to protect its unique wildlife, willed ners, and resources. It sustains the tribe and has for centuries and its why they call it the sacred place where life begins. Oil and gas drilling puts at risk the porcupine caribou herd which has sustained tribe for centuries and centrist. It also threatens wolves, polar bears, and migratory birds that live there. And will release Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere exacerbating the effects of Global Warming which have affected alaska far more than any state in this country. Republicans slipped this drilling provision into their tax cut bill last congress, and i might add that no tribes had an opportunity to voice their opinions on any of that. And now this administration is rushing ahead without adequate Environmental Review or tribal consultation. Americans want a smart approach to Sustainable Energy development not a careless rush off to sell one of our most iconic and Sacred Places for shortsighted destructive fuel production. I urge my colleagues to stand with the q guichin and speak up for the animals that live had the refuge and support this legislation. I yield back to my colleague. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young at this time id like to yield the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Hern, two minutes. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Heroin i thank my colleague from alaska for mr. Hern i thank my colleague from alaska for yielding. Utelingizing our domestic resource is essential to a strong economy. Energy dominance of a world stage is our end goal. Well never get there if we continue to cut off access to our own resources. The truth is oil and Gas Production in anwr benefits our country as a whole, but also a key industry for the people of alaska. The community sees the Energy Sector as a source of employment, revenue, and Reliable Energy. The people, including the local tribe of alaska natives, are incredibly supportive of the continuation of oil and Gas Production in their community. These people are never consulted by my colleagues at any point in the development of this bill. Neither was our colleague, don young, who is representing the needs of the people of alaska for more than 40 years, who has more experience than everyone who wrote this bill combined. Don young, the dean of the house, longest serving member in congress, who should have been the first person consulted about this legislation, was never sought out. Instead they consulted a tribe 350 miles away who has nothing do with oil and gas in anwr. To put this in perspective, i live in tulsa, oklahoma. Omaha, nebraska is about 380 miles away. Can anybody tell me what my opinion would matter in omaha, nebraska . I dont spend time there. I dont know what the people want there. The only assumption we can make as to why a tribe over 350 miles away was consulted instead of the local community is that my colleagues knew they wouldnt find support. This should be an easy decision. There is no reason to vote yes on this bill. I urge my colleagues to think about the future of our country and vote no today on h. R. 1146. I yield back. Mr. Young reserve. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman thank you, mr. Speaker. I know the gentleman does not mean to disrespect or trivialize the interests of an indigenous tribe that for hundreds and hundreds of years has depended on the porcupine caribou herd where its calving grounds and heart of the migratory road is right in the refuge we are talking about. I know the gentleman doesnt mean to disrespect them by suggesting their voices dont matter, but we believe that the gwich in voice does matter. You are going to hear them stand up for their interest consistently on this issue. With that id like to recognize the gentleman from Southern California, congressman levin, for one minute. The chair the gentleman from Southern California is recognized. Mr. Levin i rise today in support of h. R. 1146, the arctic cultural and coastal plain protection act. After almost 40 years of trow protext, the Trump Administration antifossil fuel lobbyists who have taken up residence at the department of interior opened up the Arctic National wildlife refuge to oil and Gas Development. The timing of this decision could not be more irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is expanding fossil fuel development in the arctic where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the United States. But we know that this administration isnt concerned about protecting our environment or addressing the climate crisis. It is not surprising they are willing to sacrifice the diverse habitats in an attempt to help their big oil friends turn an even bigger profit. The American People disagree. The vast majority of americans oppose drilling in this ike onic landscape and im proud to stand with them. We should be reducing our edependence on fossil fuels, embracing Renewable Energy, and leading the world in combating Climate Change not going backwards. I strongly sport the arctic cultural and coastal plain protection act, i urge my colleagues to do the same. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young at this time i yield to the gentleman from colorado, mr. Lamborn, one minute. The chair the gentleman from colorado is recognized. Mr. Lamborn mr. Chairman, environmentally responsible development of anwr will increase Americas Energy security and independence, create jobs, and provide affordable, Reliable Energy for consumers, while providing much needed revenue to both the state of alaska antifederal government. And while congressional authorization is required by law for any leasing in anwr, i along with my republican colleagues on the Natural Resources committee believe that alaska natives should be able to exercise their right to develop minerals on their lands if they so choose. As the gentleman from alaska has pointed out, native alaskans who actually live within anwr fully support responsible development of their local energy resources. Who do we listen to . The people who actually live there or extreme environmentalists, activists here in washington . The oil and gas sector has historically served as a significant source of employment, revenue, and Reliable Energy for alaska and alaska natives and supports over 110,000 direct and indirect jobs. I encourage my colleagues to oppose this legislation which fortunately will never become law. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman listen to the people who actually live there. Mr. Speaker, i wish we had seen that same concern yesterday when we had a chance to vote on banning offshore drilling in places where governors and mayors and overwhelming majorities of actual residents dont want to see their pristine coastlines and coastal economies despoiled by oil and Gas Development. Im afraid my friends sometimes have a selective sense of hearing, but the one consistent voice that always seems to be heard is that of big oil. With that id like to yield two minutes to my friend from Southern California, the chair of the energy it and Mineral Resources subcommittee, the gentleman, mr. Lowenthal. Mr. Lowenthal thank you. I want to thank representative huffman for his leadership on this very, very important bill. Id like to briefly discuss one idea, and thats the idea that you hear around that if we are going to protect anwr, that somehow this is going to hurt our ability to become Energy Independent. We cannot be Energy Independent unless we open up anwr. Right now we have to really worry because we are going to become, by not opening up anwr, more beholden to the russians, to saudi arabia. This is all going to be whether we open anwr or not. This is absolutely nonsense. Republicans and this administration no longer care about Energy Independence. Lets be clear. They do not care about Energy Independence. And they havent for years. Ever since they voted to lift the Oil Export Ban. For so many years we did not we said, we care about Energy Independence. We are not going to export our oil and gas. If energy was ind independence was the goal, we wouldnt be letting companies send american produced oil all over the world, particularly when we are still importing from other countries. And yet that is exactly what is happening today. We export over three Million Barrels a day, yet at the same time we are importing seven Million Barrels a day. If Oil Development what we are hearing today is really about making america Energy Independent, instead of exporting those three Million Barrels, we keep them here at home. So if republicans want to put the export ban back in place, then we should have a real discussion. And id love to have that discussion. But they know that their friends in the oil and gas industrial would never let them have that discussion. Mr. Huffman i yield an additional 30 seconds. Mr. Lowenthal this is all about profits. Its not about Energy Independence. With that i yield my time. Thank you. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young mr. Chairman, at this time im happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from south carolina, mr. Duncan. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Duncan thank you, mr. Speaker. I stand in opposition to this legislation. As it hamstrings the u. S. Energy production and goes against the will of the people. Tax reform not only delivered on the tax cuts for the country and propelled our record breaking economy, but it paved the way to further Energy Dominance by authorizing the development of the Arctic National wildlife refuge, specifically there is an area there the n. P. R. , it has reserves. Designated in 1980 by a Democrat Congress to be opened up for gas and oil lease sales. Look, before tax reform the opening of anwr, 92 of the 19. 5 million couldnt even acres could not even be legally touched. This area was setaside by the 1980 congress and limited to 2,000 federal acres. Thats just. 0001 of anwr. I heard an analogy the other day, its like the size after football on a football field. Its a very, very small spot. I heard another analogy, the size of a postage stamp on a wall. This would setaside for Energy Production. It has the resources and its time for us to develop those resources because the failure to develop the resources we have in this country to meet the energy needs of our nation means that we continue to be dependent on other nations. We think about the middle east, when we think about that. But as i told a story yesterday, the New England States get natural gas from russia. And the l and g tanker showed in lng tanker showed up the harbor. That means they are relying on russia. When we have an abundance of natural gas in this contry, oil in this country, both offshore and on shore, these are american resource that is should be developed. Very minimal impact on the Arctic National wildlife refuge. Its time for america to develop the resource that is god gave us when he blessed this great nation. Develop these resources in the Arctic National wildlife refuge. Its the law of the land. Time to develop. I yield back. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman we have addressed is postage stamp cue nard cuneard, we often hear, this is the postage stamp, it is spread out. Its the worlds biggest postage stamp if it is, and it would certainly despoil the beating heart of americas largest wildlife refuge. Let me just briefly address this other cunard, the idea that congress setaside the 102 area of the refuge for oil and Gas Development. If you read the law, it would setaside for a study by the department of interior that would determine if it makes sense to open up the beating heart of americas largest wildlife refuge to oil and Gas Development and heres and inconvenient fact, the department of interior found that this is a uniquely vital Natural Resource that could be dramatically harmed. Thats why for over 40 Years Congress has declined to take the step that that law envisioned of opening it up to oil and Gas Development. That is until the last congress when it was slipped in on a partyline vote against the wishes, frankly, of even many of my friends across the aisle. Just. 00. 01 the chair the gentlelady is recognized for a minute and a half. In support i rise 1146. Fter nearly four decades of protection earned by virtue of its diverse Wildlife Habitats wonders, the Trump Administration wants to sell off the heartbeat of the arctic the highest bidders. Buried in a small print of a tax the president removed critical habitat protections with the stroke of a pen, 250 wildlife han species, like the polar bear, disaster atotential the hands of the oil industry. This action is not only a omplete failure of the governments stewardship of these natural habitat but completely unnecessary considering the United States is already the Worlds Largest producer of petroleum. Ecosystemen a fragile thats already under terrible threat from Climate Change . The plan we o it to 2 3 of American People who are opposed to rilling in this iconic landscape to pass this protection act. Back. You and i yield mr. Huffman i reserve, mr. Speaker. The chair the gentleman from reserves. The gentleman from alaska. Mr. Young as painful as it is to listen to nonsense, im glad hear logical people to speak on this side. I yield one minute to the illinois, mr. Shimkus. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Thank you. its great to be down here with my friends, both on both aisle. F the as many of you know, i announced for reelection, chairman young did in the last congress. I have been to the Arctic National wildlife refuge. Debunk the view. Alaska is bigger than the whole states. Tal united the Arctic National wildlife refuge is a small area where no at. S ive i hope you get there. Plain. Flat coastal this would be like putting a of ling rig thats the size a football field on the state of south carolina. Ou cant debunk those arguments. My fatherinlaw worked on the pipeline. Micro wavemunication guy microwave guy. There are thousands of jobs. Is an insidious part of this plan, we know the pipeline flow. Have oil in it to we know that we need to continue o have exploration up there so that theres enough oil to keep that pipeline operating. Environmental he level organizations want to shutdown the pipeline. Sure it doesnt get shutdown. I yield back. Mr. Young thank you. I reserve. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman thank you, mr. Chairman. I recognize the chair of the house Natural Resources committee, the gentleman from grijalva, for as much time as he may consume. Mr. Grijalva thank you. Thank you very much. Thank the distinguished chairman of our water, oceans, and wildlife ubcommittee for the time and also for the longstanding leadership on this issue and 182 thank you to the members of congress who support h. R. 1146. R. Chairman, i rise today to strongly support this egislation, 1146, a bill to protect the Arctic National wildlife refuge from the irreversible impacts of oil and drilling. This bill would undo a particular terrible provision slipped in the 2017 republican tax bill with no this chamber, no amendments in this chamber, and no votes in this chamber. Republican party was not content with merely giving trillions of dollars of tax cuts wealthiest companies and individuals in this country. Tax cuts that have driven us without any ebt positives that the bills sponsors promised. They were time, handing out trillions of dollars to their friends and donors, Arctic Refuge he for their oil and gas buddies. Would be donethis right, as if destroying a pristine wilderness and the survival of an entire tribes way of life can never be done right. Then, the Trump Administration took over. Since then, we had a rushed so they canl review try to get the lease sales done even though two years quicker than the schedule laid out in the tax bill. Seen evidence of the concerns of career scientists overridden. D or weve seen the assistant secretary in charge of making lease sale happen jump ship. After a long threeday cooling started an oil company that has lease rights right next to the refuge. Should never uge have been opened, and even those who want to see it developed idea this il at the is now in the hands of donald trump and his buddies. Arctic rt to open the refuge has nothing to do with National Security, has nothing or has th gas prices nothing to do with Energy Independence. To do with greed, plain and simple. The Administration Simply cant stand the idea that there are places that oil and gas industry shouldnt be allowed to destroy. Cant believe there are ome places that deserve to be protected. We dont agree. Dont agree. At some point we have to say, stop, you have enough. Oil the number one producer were the number one in producer oil and gas the world and production is going up. The administration is repealing right, and left and reduce land and wildlife on over 150 million acres of public land. The oil and gas industry has enough. Arctic uldnt get the refuge as well. I urge my colleagues to vote for legislation, and i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Huffman i reserve, mr. Speaker. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska. At young mr. Chairman, this time i yield to the minnesota, mr. Stauber, three minutes. The chair the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Chairmaner thank you, young, for yielding today to me. Mr. Speaker, i rise in opposition to this democratic bill, h. R. 1146, a armful attempt to undermine responsible Energy Development. Throughout the history of our country, we have observed a politicians in washington and the east and west coast, legislating based on what they think is best for the folks in the rest of the country. To debate stened today, we can clearly see that his washingtonian habit is alive and well. For my good friends on the other side of this issue, they think better than the alaska natives living within anwr. They think they know better than benefit from the job growth. They think they know better than our unions. They think they know better than to the le closest project. I urge my colleagues to take a tep back and look at the unsettling trend that is occurring throughout this country of outsiders with the with us grip on the tenuous grip on the truth, those impacted by these local projects. For instance, in my home state of minnesota, the same thing is with the replacement of line 3. People from the twin cities who unimpacted by this project are launching efforts right here n this chamber to stop the replacement and stop the job growth and Economic Development that would accompany it. Putting our laborers, operating engineers, teamsters, work, uction workers to they support legislation that are undermining these jobs. To e projects are meant develop our Natural Resources to ensure our Energy Independence mr. Speaker, to ensure our Energy Independence and not reliance on foreign and hostile nations to this country. Responsibly develop our energy with the strongest Environmental Standards and standards in the world. Mr. Speaker, i urge my this bill. To oppose lets listen to those affected projects and ese do whats right. You. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman mr. Speaker, i two minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mr. Levin. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Levin thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank my colleague, the entleman from california, for yielding. Mr. Chairman, im proud to rise this bill, pport of as someone whos had the rivilege of spending two weeks in the Arctic National wildlife refuge 15 years ago. Lifechanging trip. Is s beauty and majesty almost beyond description. Paddling the river and along the shore of the sea, my companions and i experienced an astounding and animals in a mix unique to the region, a our iconic corner of earth. Anyone who says its an empty theres nothing a re is committing sacrilegious, as far as im concerned. Place to me and no wonder its a sacred place to people. Hin drilling in anwr would xacerbate the regional effect as well as hastening catastrophic warming generally. Prevent this ust administrations reckless effort o open up anwr to oil and Gas Development to prevent dangerous cultural impacts. We cant allow it to happen on our watch. I paddled down the river, i visited these places that are planned for drilling. Hiking along lly the plain. We came upon these drill pads. Rageous to drill in these places. They are nysing grounds for birds and homes to other exist that just dont anywhere else. I invite any of my colleagues who have the ability to travel your own power paddling and join me to go back to anwr. I dont think youd want to did. There if you i thank congressman huffman for his leadership on this and i chairman grijalva and i thank my and i ask my colleagues to support this bill. Thank you. I yield back the balance of my time. Reserve. An i the chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young its an honor to to the gentlelady from cheney. Hosea ms. Cheney. The gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Cheney i want to thank my colleague from alaska for yielding. Rise in strong opposition to this legislation. I wish i could say that i am bills that are being brought before us this week, but i am not. The democratic war on our economy, on americas families, and on fossil fuels continues. Energy independence is crucial for our economy and security. I stand in strong solidarity ith my friend and colleague from alaska, someone who is a mentor, not just to me, but to all on our side of the aisle. Partly, i stand in solidarity i, like mr. Use young, represent my entire state. Alaska, wyoming is no stranger to outsiders thinking whats best for us. The legislation we have before echos the majoritys goal of making the green new us a reality, by making increasingly dependent on foreign sources of energy. Join day, mr. Speaker, i my colleagues, whip scalise, and the House Committee on natural member, mr. Nking bishop, to introduce the act. Can energy first our bill would end unnecessary overreach from washington states tos and enable manage Energy Production on lands within our borders. Our alloftheabove proenergy our lation would help put families to, would, further our Energy Independence, and put our National Security at the forefront. Itself on our fossil fuels. We know that our economy, that security depends upon these. We consider our fossil fuels to treasures and, mr. Speaker, we thank god for our fossil fuels. Stand here today to oppose misguided, antienergy antiindependence that my colleagues have put forward. Oppose y colleagues to this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Young thank you, liz. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman mr. Speaker, this about Energy Independence. If my friends across the aisle were concerned about Energy Independence, they certainly wouldnt have lifted the crude il export ban in previous congress, and if they wanted to talk about putting that crude Oil Export Ban in place back place, wed have something to Work Together on and we could actually take a step towards independence, but the truth is we are awash in oil right now. E are exporting millions of barrels of oil a day while we continue to import all that big, imported oil that sometimes my friends across the aisle are concerned about. What this is really about is money and profits for big oil. Make a lot more money when they can export that oil in the world market. Why when we talk about developing the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, no one should be confused by these claims that would go to american consumption. It wont. T will find top dollar on the global export market, because thats where big oil can make the most money, and thats the agenda, we heard about, is all about. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Yumming i yield two minutes to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Graves. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Graves thank you, mr. Chairman. I want to thank the representative from alaska for yielding time. I want to say it again, i want to thank the gentleman from alaska. The soul member seoul member representing all alaskans in the house of representatives who joins with his senators, the entire alaska delegation, in opposing this bill. I heard mr. Stauber come down earlier and talk about how we dont need people from other states, from california coming in and imposing their beliefs on alaska. We have a constitutional we have a structure here where members of the state of alaska, residents of the state of alaska, they elect their representatives. And their representatives are unanimously supporting the development in anwr. They unanimously support it. Why do we have this structure where other people come in it is fascinating to me we can be here and have folks from california who sit here and all the time ask for exceptions, ask for their own conditions and rules in california and then they now come in and know better and need to tell alaskans what needs to be done. I just heard allegations that this was about oil Company Profits and other things. His is about what the citizens of alaska want. What their elected representatives are doing to represent their own constituents. Now, to give you an idea how much of a farce this whole thing is, do you realize that this is the third bill that is using the same funding stream to pay for everything . We have taken 1 an paid 3 with it. How do you do that . This entire thing is a farce. To take it steap further to let you know what a farce this is. When this bill came up in the Natural Resources committee, i offered an amendment that said if this bill results in greater Greenhouse Gas emissions then this bill doesnt take place, its not enacted. You know my Democrat Friends voted against t. Meaning they want greater emissions in Greenhouse Gases . This whole thing is a farce. This is going to result in greater, greater dependence upon foreign oil imports, greater mr. Young one more minute. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Graves thank you, mr. Young. This is going to result in greater dependence upon imports of energy. We have seen it over and over again. We had career officials sit right in front of us in the Natural Resources committee that testified that when you stop domestic production, that you become more dependent. Look upon my friends only state of california that has become increasingly dependent upon oil from saudi arabia. Increasing their imports of oil from saudi arabia. Look at our friends up in the northeast that have to import natural gas from putins russia and burn heavy heating oil to help warm the homes in the northeast because they similarly cut off their Energy Supplies. This makes no sense whatsoever. We are doing it under the auspicious of an environment that this very bill threatens. I urge rejection of this amendment of this legislation. And rejection of this entire farce process. Yield back. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman thank you, mr. Speaker. We just heard some pretty high sanctimony about the need to listen to the people that actually live there. That might be convincing but for the fact that just yesterday my friends voted to override the wishes of the people that actually live on the atlantic and pacific coast, the wishes of their governors, mayors, overwhelming majorities of their populations who dont wreck their pristine wreck the coastlines and put their coastal economies at risk because of Oil Development. Again, lets not pretend that this is about listening to local voices. This is about listening to one voice and that is the voice of big oil. Lets take it back to alaska, even in the hotbed of Oil Development, as my friends will tell it, of the village, a 2016 poll in that community indicated that that community itself is divided on the question of whether oil and Gas Development should proceed. Again, lets not be selective or hypocritical about the voices we claim to care about. Certainly the voice of big oil is well represented here today in this debate. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young mr. Chairman, at this time im happy to yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Upton thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise in opposition to the bill. I served as the former chairman now of the energy and Commerce Committee and now serve as the Top Republican on the energy subcommittee. In those years i helped develop, promote, and implement north american Energy Independent plan. It includes all of the above. Yes, Renewable Energy as well. I can remember the gas lines, i can remember paying higher prices for natural gas. I can remember 4 and 5 per gallon gas prices. And i can remember sending 1 billion every day to the middle east. I smiled this last weekend when i filled up for 2. 25. I smile now when i know we can export rather than import oil from places that may not be so friendly to the United States. So, if this bill passed, as well as the other two that passed yesterday, and somehow became enacted into law, we have this thing called supply and demand. Guess what . Our consumers will pay much higher gas prices and we will lose out. I urge my colleagues to vote no. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. Mr. Young mr. Chairman, at this time im happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. Lamalfa. The chair the gentleman is recognized. I wish to thank my colleague from alaska, the dean of the house here, mr. Young, for his strong efforts for many years on opening up this important piece of energy for our country, for our whole grid. Its fascinating to listen to the debate here. Ever piece of land, everything we would ever go to develop whether its for a pipeline, for energy, forestry, the moment somebody approaches that resource, this god given resources we have all over this country, and now becomes this pristine, untouchable nonusable land that we shouldnt have anything to do it with as humankind. Salvage longing after a fire. Cant do that. Have to sue. Hear a lot about big oil. How about big enviro . There are a lot of people who make loot of money, six digit fits in this town, a lot of dollars come in by invoking a picture of an animal who probably was a victim of a fire in a forest because we are not managing that. 47,000 acres of burning fire right in my district in Northern California because we are not allowed to manage these lands. Almost everybody here in this congress that lives more than a few hundred miles away flew here in a jet to get to this place to do this session. Wheres the hypocrisy being talked about with the amount of Energy Everybody uses. To come from somewhere. For us to live as we do. To keep the lights on in this place torques keep it cool in here. To keep in warm in the winter, especially the northeast where its extremely cold. Oil is needed, energy is needed. We hear we are exporting oil, importing oil. There are different types of oil for different types of purposes, too. You have different types of food. Exchange for different, we have different tichese oil, different energy. We want our european allies be reliant on iranian oil . Is that what we are asking . Reliant upon russian natural gas in our european theater . No. We need to be mart of that matrix, the United States. If we are an exporter or selfsufficient, we need to be active on this. This postage stamp size of area in alaska the chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lamalfa we know how to ecolocally do well. This isnt 1850, we are not going to do horrible environmental damage. We know how do this right. When that resource is used someday, well put it back. We need to develop under our own country, own rules, instead of the arrogance to rely on countries that do it without rules such as china and the middle east and others that dont have our best interest or the environment at heart. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman i reserve, mr. Speaker. Prepared to close. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. Mr. Young mr. Chairman, at this point i would like to include in the record a statement of Administration Policy on this bill which indicates the president s advisors would recommend he veto it. If it unlikely gets to his desk. The chair thats covered under general leave. Mr. Young i would like to insert in the record at this point a letter in strong opposition to this bill signed by 20 entities, including the u. S. Chamber of commerce, Consumer Energy alliance, from the from the n labors indnasht union in north america. The chair that will also be covered under general leave. Mr. Young i would like to insert for the record a letter from the president a strong opposition to this legislation. The chair that will also be covered under general leave. Mr. Young at this time, mr. Chairman, id like to give whatever time he may consume to the gentleman from utah, mr. Bishop, the former chairman of the committee, Ranking Member at this time. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Bishop i was hoping you would insert me in the record as well. I appreciate the opportunity being here. We are here today due of the democratic week of energy proposals. Once again well quote earl weaver when went out to the umpire and said, if this is as good as it gets or are you going to get better . Ill say the same thing on this bill as we did yesterday. This as good as it gets or are you going to get better . This is the same concept we had with the first bill that we did. We discussed the first bill yesterday in which we did things that are basically illogical. Not for science region. Science is safely taken out and shoved in a trash can. We did it for political reasons. It is signified by the amendments that the rules committee unfortunately made in order in which we made amounts in order to have all sorts of studies on the issue. In the real world you are trying to do a study, come up results, and then a polsism 245es thats not what we did yesterday. We decide on a policy and institute a lot of noncomprehensive skewed studies to try and see if we can come up with arguments in favor of the policy we already did. Its backwards. Ok to do it, you have the votes, thats fine. Dont have the awe castity to say that this administration doesnt trust science or that we dont trust science over here when you also put an amendment in there to deny any kind of Seismic Research which would give you the data we havent had since the 1980s. Only some of that seismic data. It was its a cued approach to t but the most significant issue is the one that mr. Huffman has raised several times today. In which he was right, slightly offcenter with it but hes actually right. Yesterday many of the arguments that were made were that the states and state populations in these areas want a kind of moratorium on drilling in their areas. I get that. Listening to those people is a good thing to do. Where you got it wrong, though, is they werent talking the states who were wanting that were not talking about the areas within their states or even the water that abuts their states, they wanted the ability to control what happens on federal waters which is not part of the states concept. Once again if you would allow me the ability to have control of what happened on federal lands in my state, in the state, we might have an apples and apples situation, but that aint it. There is also the concept that there was not consultation with native americans who live in alaska and that once again is actually inaccurate again. There have been consultations going on since you were playing volleyball in college. And they will continue to go on from that state, that side. And in fact thats where the difference comes. The people in alaska who live there dont want this bill. And once again they dont want it because its impacting their state, their property, their land which is not what was happening yesterday where states were trying to impact what was happening on federal water. It was sad when we had the hearing on this bill the democrats did not invite those residents of this area to testify, we did. And when they came in march to testify, the tribal leaders from the only village in this coastal plain, the one closest to this area, simply said they were against this bill. Their exact quote was we will not become conservation refugees. We do not approve of your efforts to turn our homeland into one giant National Park which would literally guarantee us a fate with no economy, no jobs, reduce substance, and no hope for the future of our people. Thats what they want in their areas. When some of the other speakers said consultation, thats not true. Mr. Young is saying exactly what the constituents want in their area, and even though this land is controlled by fish and wildlife, the Mineral Resources are not federal. These people who are testifying, they dont want this bill, these people, these people own a majority or significant portion of those mineral rights. Its their minerals. They should have the ability of saying what they want to. They have spoken clearly year after year after year. And thats where the difference of yesterday and the difference of today is significant. And you are glossing over that. That is significant. These people need to have the ability of controlling their own destiny and they are not trying to control something thats not within the state. It is their resources. It is their area. We have had this debate before. We had it when i first came in here. Its going to continue on ad nauseam. The problem is this is not a good Energy Position for the future. This makes this country stronger. The stuff democrats are putting week is energy disjointed, discombobulated and oesnt help anyone doesnt help anyone at all. Once again, ill agree with mr. Young. Trust his people on what they want to do with their resources. Not federal. Their resources. Back. D the chair the gentleman from alaska reserves. California isfrom recognized. Mr. Huffman thanks, mr. Speaker. It is important to remember that ere talking about a federal wildlife refuge, americas Arctic Refuge. Lose sight of that, erhaps, listening to the pretzel logic we heard from our friend who, at the end of the day, cannot square the concern for local voices when it comes to drilling in a federal refuge pretzel throughouting of ocal flouting of local voices on drilling in the atlantic and pacific coast. Dizzying. Nect is with that id like to yield a minute and a half to the gentlelady from colorado, ms. One of the members of congress who actually spent some time in the Arctic Refuge. The chair the gentlelady is recognized. S. Degette thank you, mr. Chairman. In 2017 with little debate, the chamber quietly approved to open up the arctic oil nal wildlife refuge to and gas drilling. Anwr is our nations largest wildlife refuge. Ancestral home to the gwichin people and current home species of 250 wildlife, including threatened pecies like polar bears, that raise their cubs did. As the chairman said, ive traveled to this special place. With the gwichin people. I saw the pristine beauty of the plain, and iplain, and i saw thousands of porcupine caribou in their annual migration process. I know how important this refuge ecosystem. Ntire instead of protecting this important environment, this is going to open up to drilling and allow it to an estroyed for indeterminant amount of oil. Why . Overwhelming number of American People are opposed to this plan. They want this land preserved, destroyed. This bill, h. R. 1146, will block the administrations disastrous refuge. Protect the i strongly urge all of my i leagues to support it, and yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Huffman i reserve, mr. Speaker. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. The gentleman from alaska is recognized. I am ung at this time happy to yield to the gentleman gosar. Rizona, mr. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Gosar i rise in opposition to the unwarranted legislation. Two bills we debated yesterday, this bill will hinder our Energy Dominance. S someone that went to the Arctic National wildlife refuge, 1002, what ittion the local population. Only does Energy Development in section 1002 has support of habitants of the region, it has support of my colleague, don two , and alaskas senators. The majority of alaskans support it. Very governor since 1980 supported it. 100 of alaskas delegation it. E 1980 supported and the natives that live right cabbing toefbic toefb kaktovic, it. Ort this is how the energy Resources Committee operate. Care that locals oppose this legislation. They believe that washington, the extremist the extremist environmental groups know bet and everyone should go with extremism and section 1002 can greatly benefit our energys security. They believe that section 1002 than 10 Million Barrels of oil. Not to mention natural gas. The othere example of side putting leftwing extremism he can lawal of local voices. In a Firm Believer alloftheabove Energy Production and multiple use. Lands, like section power to the Unlimited Power our country. Section 1002 is a small sliver in this area. Acres, in fact. The chair the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Gosar i urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation, and i yield back. Mr. Young i reserve. The chair the gentleman from reserves. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Huffman i reserve, mr. Speaker. The chair the gentleman from california reserves. Is gentleman from alaska recognized. Mr. Young does the gentleman have the right to close . The chair the gentleman from alifornia has the right to close. Mr. Young mr. Chairman, my colleagues, this is a bill, and i heard people say there was no consultation. There was consultation. He gentleman from california has driven a wedge between two groups of alaskan natives. There, reside there, directly affected, the other one is 400 miles away. We had testimony from that group by the way, i am a gwichin. Be one but my daughters are, my wife was, and she would turnover in her grave heard this nonsense about the gwichin. Used to be the house of the people. Instead of people putting their dont put business, i it in your business. Ill figure out a way to do that. Wrong. This is this has been debated for 40 years. By the set aside congress for exploration. And by the way, we gave the natives that live there, land for their social, economic wellbeing, and away from ing it them. You talk about a cultural aspect. You are hurting those people. You dont care. Remember who you represent, and i understand that. Youre a lawyer. To me, to have this type of bill the floor is not only a wasted time of this house body, but a bad thing for this nation, worse than that, going back on the word. Represent allstate of the all of the state of alaska. He gwichin are being very frankly chilled, used for a sham. Thats a shame. Be what you want to be. The chair the gentlemans time has expired. R. Young you can stand there holier than thou. You are doing something bad for the alaskan native. To one side. The chair the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Young with that i urge a this legislation. The chair the gentleman from california is recognized. R. Huffman thank you, mr. Speaker. I have a lot of respect and affection for the dean of the house. That we are on opposite sides of this issue. Im also sorry that it seems comes to oil and Gas Development in the Arctic Refuge to only some of the voices in the alaska community. Chair, this week, dozens of gwichin leaders flew all the way to washington, d. C. , as theyve done many, many times over the years, long before i working on this bill. And they do that because the rctic refuge is not simply a policy issue for them. Its not about Energy Supplies geopoliticks or scoring points. L its about their entire way of life. Those of us on the floor today dont worry about our entire and culture hinge on the outcome of this vote. Gallery in are in the behind me right now. At stake. Ctly whats and for those on the other side who would have us destroy this sacred area for some petroleum profits, id ask them now . Why why do we need to do this now . Because once its done, its done. Never be l plain will the same again after the drill rigs roll in. We wait, if we conserve, if we protect, if we treat this care it rea with the deserves, then it will still be undisturbed for generations to enjoy. Or maybe my grandchildren will debating congressman oungs greatgreatgrandchildren on this issue on the same floor. I dont mind the debate. Thats what this country is all about. But recklessly throwing open one in he most special places this country because a few Oil Companies want even higher profits and President Trump a win, that is not fine. That is not worth it. I urge my colleagues to protect arctic, stand with the gwichin people and vote yes hasuncer 40 years, cspan been providing unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Heres a look at our live coverage friday. ,n cspan at 10 00 a. M. Eastern a discussion about countering irans illicit financial networks. 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