WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released the October Jobs Report showing that a dismal 80,000 jobs were created in October with an unemployment rate of 9%. For the past 33 consecutive months, unemployment has been above 8%. This happening on the same day as the Obama Administration testifies to the House Natural Resources Committee on its insistence of rewriting the “Stream Buffer Zone” rule. This action by the...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) released the following statement today after testifying in support of H.R. 2070 – the “World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011.” This legislation sponsored by Bill Johnson directs the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, to install a plaque or inscription at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the Nation on the morning of June 6, 1944 – D-Day. Testifying with Bil...
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Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) is pleased to announce that he will host an Oil & Gas Forum in Steubenville to talk with eastern and southeastern Ohio residents about the recent developments in the region and share information in regards to the Utica Shale.
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Congressman Bill Johnson announced today that an important piece of legislation he’s authored to help bring the lease sales of onshore lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) into the 21st Century by allowing these sales to be conducted through live Internet auctions has been approved unanimously by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) today participated in a field hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources in Charleston, West Virginia on the Obama Administration’s Office of Surface Mining, Enforcement and Regulation’s (OSM) onerous and job threatening rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule.
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House Republicans, led by Ohio freshman Bill Johnson, called on Pizarchik on Thursday to abandon his agency’s efforts to rewrite Interior’s “stream protection rule,” and pledged to continue their efforts to defund it in upcoming federal budgets. The House continuing budget resolution, approved in February, included a rider that would block Interior from funding the rewrite.
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