House Republicans grill BLM official in tense hearing
House Republicans scolded a Bureau of Land Management official Tuesday over the Biden administration’s limits on oil and gas development on public land, including a recent decision to revoke drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“It is not a priority of this administration to keep America strong,” Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, said during the Tuesday hearing. “They only seek to appease the radical left at the expense of the rest of America.”
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