Energy
We want more: Exploring and developing our domestic and friendly foreign sources is the key priority.
Our country’s economy and national security future hinge upon our ability to maintain and develop afford energy sources. Without our own reliable and consistent source of energy, we remain reliable on others to power our homes, businesses, farms, and cars.
Our energy resources are vast, yet much remains undeveloped and underutilized due to Washington restrictions and political controls. Whether it is their continued attacks on coal and all fossil fuels, their prohibitions on drilling offshore or on federal lands, the President’s single-handed decision to stop the importation of Canadian oil through the proposed Keystone pipeline, bureaucrats (particularly at the EPA) and liberal politicians simply oppose energy development and the tens and thousands of jobs that come with it.
Instead, I support an “all-of-the-above” strategy for energy. This includes exploration and private development of fossil fuels and viable, cost-effective alternative forms of energy such as wind, biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel, and nuclear energy. Washington should not be restricting the fuel choices of Americans, so I have co-sponsored legislation to end all special interest energy subsidies.
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Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) issued the following statement in response to an announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) has been officially removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife:
“This announcement formalizes our big victory earlier this year when USFWS announced their plans to remove the LPC from the endangered species list.
Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) supported the FY2017 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. It passed the House 231-196 on Thursday afternoon.
On Tuesday, The Separation of Powers Restoration Act, a bill cosponsored by Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01), passed the House. The Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA) seeks to restore the balance of power among the three branches as the Constitution dictates.
In 1984, the Supreme Court established the Chevron Deference, which gives agencies in the executive branch authority to interpret “ambiguous” laws.
Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) celebrated yet another victory for Kansas, as the Obama Administration surrendered to the intense pressure and abandoned their appeal of a court ruling deeming their listing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) as illicit. The regulation was a real threat to the rural Kansas economy, as it restricted the ability of farmers and ranchers, oil and gas producers, and many other entrepreneurs to earn a living and operate a business to support their families.
On Tuesday, Congressman Huelskamp joined members of the United States House and Senate to file an amicus brief to support the 29 states in the State of West Virginia et al v. EPA litigation pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) made the following statement following the release of Barack Obama’s budget that attacks rural America with new oil taxes and major cuts to crop insurance and rural healthcare.
WASHINGTON – In 2015, Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) sponsored H.R.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) continued his long history of fighting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans that harms Kansans.
On September 1, 2015 Federal District Court in the Western District of Texas overturned a decision by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Listing the Lesser Prairie-Chicken as a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The decision, effective immediately found USFWS did not follow their own internal Policies for evaluating species and local conservation efforts.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) was presented with the Award for Conservative Excellence by Matt Schlapp and the American Conservative Union.