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01.15.09

 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the Senate’s passage of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act by a 73-21 vote. The bill now goes to the House…

10.23.08

ROSWELL, N.M.  – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement about news that AREVA and Northrup Grumman will…

10.01.08

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and former chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, announced his intention to support the…

10.01.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding H.R.7081, the U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and…

09.27.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the passage of a Continuing Resolution…

09.24.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the decision by Democrats to allow the…

09.23.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today applauded passage of a tax extenders package that includes extensions for key…

09.16.08

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today questioned the accuracy of a report purporting to show that market speculation has…

09.16.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today made the following statement at a full committee hearing to examine the…

09.12.08

WASHINGTON – At a markup yesterday to consider 54 bills today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee honored ranking member Pete Domenici with a resolution thanking him for his…

08.25.08

 The following guest column appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on August 25th, 2008:                    “We can’t drill our way out of this problem.”  It’s a refrain that…

08.01.08

                WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Senate’s inaction on gas…

07.29.08

On the Senate floor this afternoon, Senator Domenici offered a critique of Democrats’ “production” amendment to the underlying speculation bill.     Among Domenici’s chief concerns are:   –         provisions…

07.25.08

          WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding today’s procedural vote that prevented Democrats from ending debate…

07.22.08

                 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had the…

07.21.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today released the following statement regarding his plans to offer an offshore…

07.17.08

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Republican Staff THEY SAID IT: MARKET SPECULATION Contact: Matt Letourneau, 202-224-6977   Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid has introduced legislation (S.3268) that he claims…

07.15.08

           Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. To our witnesses, thank you for coming to share your expertise with us.                With oil trading at more than $140…

07.14.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding President Bush’s announcement that he is lifting…

07.08.08

PREPARED BY THE SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE – REPUBLICAN STAFF   Oil Shale Background and Impacts What is oil shale? ·        According to the Argonne National Laboratory, “the term oil shale…

07.08.08

PREPARED BY THE SENATE ENERGY COMMITTEE – REPUBLICAN STAFF   Oil and Gas Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf Background and Impacts   How much oil is produced on the…

07.01.08

              ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding today’s formal approval by the…

06.27.08

          WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, last night introduced bipartisan legislation that will allow America to fully realize the…

06.27.08

           WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today announced that Judy Pensabene, the panel’s Republican Chief Counsel, will retire from…

06.26.08

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Gas Price Reduction Act introduced by…