Energy and Environment

The Obama Administration is no stranger to overreach. An influx of federal regulations and the unconstitutional health insurance mandate are examples of this. In addition, last week President Obama made four unprecedented “recess” appointments – a serious abuse of executive power. Read more »

I support the inclusion of the Boiler MACT provisions in any final payroll tax holiday agreement. The House has now voiced their support of the Boiler MACT legislation three times – bipartisan passage of H.R. 2250 in October, passage of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630) last week, and by this resolution. Read more »

The Senate has again failed to act on House-passed legislation that would help American businesses, hospitals, and universities facing unreasonable Boiler MACT regulations. Read more »

Kenny Rogers‘ “The Gambler” holds many lessons for Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu in his handling of the Solyndra bankruptcy fiasco. Read more »

Regulatory overreach isn’t just affecting coal mines and manufacturers. Read more »

I am carefully reviewing the revised Boiler MACT rules and hope that these are an improvement over the previously proposed rules. Read more »

Recently the national debt surpassed $15 trillion ($15,000,000,000,000). That means every American citizen’s share is roughly $48,000. Read more »

All eight Republicans who represent Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday to reconsider a decision to ban offshore oil and gas drilling off the commonwealth’s coast. Read more »

In my opinion, in subordinating the loan guarantee, DoE acted illegally. Subordination is the process by which private financiers were put in line in front of the taxpayers should Solyndra go bankrupt, as it did. Read more »

Veterans Day is a day of remembrance as well as celebration. I was honored to have the opportunity to reflect upon and celebrate the service of our veterans with several groups in the Ninth District. Read more »