Due to a flaw in the 1995 Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act numerous oil companies are now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in federal lands and paying no royalties to the federal government.
U.S. representative
a House committee hearing
Subjects: energy,federal-budget,gas-prices,government-efficiencySpeaker: dennis-kucinichSpeaker Job Title: U.S. representativeParty affiliation: democrat