Honorable Richard Pombo
United States Representative, California, Republican
Representative Pombo, of the Eleventh District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served on the Tracy (California) City Council from 1990 to 1992. He chairs the Resources Committee and is a member of the Agriculture Committee. The following is from the June 29, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 4761, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act. We have before us today an extremely important bill. We have the opportunity today to move forward in terms of a national energy policy and taking a step in the right direction. I hope that we…