34 Quotes by Richard Pombo

the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts.

Private property owners have to be part of the solution,

You're not excusing them from following the law, you're just trying to make the law work so that they can take care of the levee systems or the dams or whatever it is,

Thirty years of critical habitat have done very little if anything to help species, ... The current system does not work.

This is an aggressive deficit-cutting measure that raises revenue for Uncle Sam so Uncle Sam doesn't take it from the taxpayers themselves. We will generate these new revenues by increasing domestic energy supplies at a time when American consumers need them most.

A lot of guys were really upset. Looking at what we face as a country right now, with escalating energy prices, the shortage of natural gas, a lot of guys believe that this is our last best chance to increase American production of energy.

This month Mother Nature proved just how vulnerable America is to supply disruptions, ... We must do more to increase and to diversify domestic supplies.

This legislation will lead to increased and more diverse U.S. energy supplies to prevent disruptions and to bring future price relief,

I'm told this is also an issue that has been tested in court and a settlement has been reached and it's not necessary to address the issue in the underlying bill,