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  • Keep Offshore Drilling in the U.S. Afloat
    Jul 14, 2010  - As the unemployment rate sits at 9.5%, American jobs are literally floating away. Two oil drilling rigs from the Gulf of Mexico recently embarked on a two month journey overseas. Diamond Offshore announced one rig is going to the Nile River delta of Egypt and the other is heading to the Republic of ... More
  • CBS News: BP Escrow Fund Shouldn't be Used for Political Purposes
    Jun 17, 2010  - (Source: CBS News) It's a good thing that BP agreed to put $20 billion into an independently-run escrow fund to pay for economic damages from the Gulf oil spill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said in an interview with CBS Minneapolis station WCCO Wednesday. She added, however, that the next ste... More
  • President Uses Gulf Oil Spill to Push for Cap-and-Trade
    Jun 15, 2010  - The possibility that President Obama will use this catastrophe in the Gulf to reignite a push for a cap-and-trade national energy tax is very real despite the two having very little to do with one another. After all, this legislation will not address the problem in front of us of oil still spilling ... More
  • Washington Examiner Oped: First, stop the spill, then be ready before the next time
    Jun 11, 2010  - Since the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, which tragically cost the lives of 11 workers on board, various entities have scrambled to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, which is threatening the regional ecosystem and economy. Right now, our focus must be to do every... More
  • Bachmann meets with Minnesota Rural Electric Association
    May 18, 2010  - Today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann met with electric cooperative CEOs and the Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA) at Great River Energy in Maple Grove, MN. Bachmann spoke with the group about the need for an “all of the above” energy strategy to provide low cost and efficient energy solut... More
  • Fake jobs cost us real jobs
    May 13, 2010  - Here’s a shocker…. Senate Democrats are continuing down the path of job killing and costly energy reforms based on the tried and failed European cap-and-trade system. Just this week Carlo Stagnaro and Luciano Lavecchia lamented about the cost of “green” jobs on the Italian workforce in a piece fo... More
  • The EPA's Backdoor National Energy Tax
    Mar 2, 2010  - In an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a national energy tax by circumventing the legislative process, the EPA (with the backing of the Obama Administration) is pushing emission regulations which will destroy jobs and further impact our already struggling economy. Know... More
  • The Hill Newspaper: Energy Independence calls for broad array of sources
    Feb 23, 2010  - Almost two years ago, I embarked on a unique journey through my district in north-central Minnesota. I met with families and business owners to discuss the pressing issue that summer: the rising cost of energy. I heard the people say they wanted solutions that would solve this ongoing crisis, yet a ... More
  • EPA to Force Businesses to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
    Dec 7, 2009  - With the future of cap-and-trade currently in limbo in the Senate, President Obama and liberal leaders in Congress are getting a bit nervous about the prospects of their national energy tax becoming law, and rightly so. More and more evidence is pointing to the highly skeptical statistics of global ... More
  • The Hill: Cap-and-trade hurts farmers
    Oct 27, 2009  - We have already had snowfall in Minnesota — a reminder that energy bills will soon increase.  However, if Democrats have their way, families could be hit harder and all year-round with higher energy bills. And, some families — particularly those that farm and live in rural America — would be hit har... More