| Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act—Motion To Proceed |
March 27, 2012 |
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Lisa Murkowski, R-AK
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"If we are really serious in the Senate about what we are doing in terms of increasing our long-overdue requirement to up our oil resources, our oil production and supply, we know how. We have opportunities from our neighbors to the north in Canada with the Keystone Pipeline. We clearly have opportunities in Alaska from the Outer Continental Shelf, from the Rocky Mountain West. We still import about half of our oil supply and about half of that is from OPEC."
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| House Energy Action Team Hour |
February 29, 2012 |
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Jeffrey Duncan, R-SC
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"Energy production might be up in this country, but it has nothing to do with the policies of this administration. It goes back to the previous administration that said, you know what, we’re going to open up Bakken because the geological survey found a ton of oil reserves there. In your home State, the oil shale in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, could be the next Saudi Arabia if we were to allow onshore production for oil shale in the Rocky Mountains. I know the gentleman from Colorado probably wants to talk about the oil shales of Colorado."
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| Earthquake Awareness Month In Missouri |
February 29, 2012 |
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Russ Carnahan, D-MO
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"February is Earthquake Awareness Month in Missouri. My district lies within the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the nation’s most active earthquake zone east of the Rocky Mountains. Every year there are more than 200 small earthquakes in this region and there have been earthquakes as strong as magnitude 7.0 in the past. These natural disasters aren’t predictable so we must remain vigilant in our preparation for and awareness of the hazards associated with earthquakes."
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