For a bill combining several Clean Energy Initiatives followed by five measures dealing with veterans issues. Live now to the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. Orde the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The advance of Coronavirus Infections continues to rise in a number of states around our nation, send your spirit of healing and wellbeing among those who suffer and your angels to protect the Many Health Care workers who place their own wellbeing in danger every day. Comfort those today in the Supreme Court who begin the blic mourning of a beloved colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and console those who worked with over so many years. Bless the members of this peoples house who labor today to pass bills to advance the common wheel of our nation. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolut
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking and minority member of the committee of Natural Resources or their respective designees. The gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, and gentleman from colorado, mr. Neguse, will cole 30 minutes. The chair recognizes th gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman. Mr. Westerman i ask all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on h. R. 3397. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Westerman mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of representative curtis bill, h. R. 3397, the we were Economic Security today act, or west act of 2024. The west act withdraws the flawed illegal conservation and Landscape Health rule which was finalized earlier this month by the bureau of Land Management or the b. L. M. You may be asking, why is a rule focused on conservation and Landscape Health so bad . Well, it wouldnt be bad if thats what it was really focus
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The opportunity to talk a little bit about what we have been doing on the Energy Committee for the past year in an effort to really focus on where we have been with Energy Policy and really helping to move forward in a way that is not the same old same old, but really real imagining and refocusing where we should be has been an important opportunity for us to really put some considered thought into the proposal. What you have in front of you is better than airplane reading. There are some suggestions in this energy 2020 document that people will look at and they will argue and they will say that is one persons view. That is true, that is true. But while we are trying to do is not give you a legislative package starting with initiatives that we are going to kind of clicked off as we move forward. This is really designed to be a discussion blueprint. We want to try to change the conversation. One of the reasons we have to think about changing the conversation is because the Energy Paradi