Last month, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to serve as Secretary of the Interior. In his statement, President Trump also announced the creation of the National Energy Council, which will include every agency involved in each step of the energy development, production, and distribution process. As Secretary of the Interior, Burgum will chair the council.
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) delivered a speech on the Senate floor highlighting the announcement.
"Doug Burgum does do things differently than most, I will warn you. It is his nature. He is, after all, a risk taker. He mortgaged his family farm to get $250,000 in seed capital needed to buy into his first company, a small business solutions startup in Fargo called Great Plains Software. Great Plains grew from a dozen or so to over 2,200 employees before it was sold to Microsoft in 2001 for $1.1 billion. Now, Fargo, North Dakota is home to one of the largest Microsoft campuses in the country.
"By definition and tradition, a cabinet secretary's role is limited to the confines of the agency that they lead, the Constitution and the laws of the United States. But when President Trump announced Governor Burgum as his choice to serve as Secretary of the Interior, he also announced the formation, the establishment of a National Energy Council with Doug serving as its very first chair. This will include every agency involved in every step of the development, production, and distribution of American-made energy. This coordination is a radically commonsense solution to the inane complexity of an overbearing bureaucracy.
"The pick of Governor Burgum and the creation of the council are brilliant moves by a president who has made energy dominance a central pillar of his second administration. Like every other cabinet secretary nominee, Doug Burgum will come before the Senate, first in committee, and then on the floor for a Senate-wide vote. We will fulfill our Constitutional duty to provide our advice and, ultimately, consent to the president's nominee.
"We need dedicated these outsiders like President Trump and Governor Burgum to even begin cleaning up the mess of the last four years and Make Energy Policy Make Sense Again. Undoing the mountain of Biden administration regulations is the first step to unleashing our energy potential. But it will take deliberate, thoughtful coordination between the Department of the Interior, Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and yes, the Department of Justice, and others. Encouraging American energy development requires making producers' interactions with the federal government as seamless as possible and we must have a Justice Department committed to the laws and policies they are responsible for defending.
"As chair of the National Energy Council and Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum will be at the forefront of slashing red tape and unleashing American energy dominance to Make American Energy Great Again. Congratulations to President Trump and Governor Burgum. January 20th can't get here too soon!"
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