IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 635 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Mr. Al Armendariz, 
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator for South Central Re-
gion (Region 6), is not suitable to secure domestic energy development, 
and, therefore should immediately resign. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2012 
Mr. LANDRY (for himself and Mr. FARENTHOLD) submitted the following res-
olution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
Mr. Al Armendariz, Environmental Protection Agency 
Administrator for South Central Region (Region 6), is 
not suitable to secure domestic energy development, and, 
therefore should immediately resign. 
Whereas the oil and gas industry is, has been, and will con-
tinue to be a vital economic engine for the United States; 
Whereas it is not the place of the Environmental Protection 
Agency and its officials to use pejorative language 
against the oil and gas industry; 
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Whereas the Administration should cooperatively foster re-
sponsible and prosperous energy development; 
Whereas the oil and gas industry supports 9,200,000 United 
States 
jobs 
and 
contributes 
more 
than 
$1,000,000,000,000 to the United States economy; 
Whereas the loss of these jobs and reduction in economic ac-
tivity would devastate the security of the United States; 
Whereas Mr. Al Armendariz’s remarks and disdain for the oil 
and gas industry injures the United States domestic en-
ergy development and is disrespectful to those hard-
working men and women of the industry; 
Whereas Mr. Al Armendariz was appointed by President 
Barack Obama on November 5, 2009, as the Regional 
Administrator for EPA’s Region 6 office in Dallas, 
Texas; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘Oil and gas is 
an enforcement priority, it’s one of seven, so we are going 
to spend a fair amount of time looking at oil and gas 
production.’’; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘I was in a meet-
ing once and I gave an analogy to my staff . . . the Ro-
mans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. 
They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d 
find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify 
them. And then you know that town was really easy to 
manage for the next few years.’’; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘And so you make 
examples out of people who are in this case not compliant 
with the law. Find people who are not compliant with the 
law, and you hit them as hard as you can and you make 
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examples out of them, and there is a deterrent effect 
there.’’; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘And, companies 
that are smart see that, they don’t want to play that 
game, and they decide at that point that it’s time to 
clean up.’’; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘And, that won’t 
happen unless you have somebody out there making ex-
amples of people. So you go out, you look at an industry, 
you find people violating the law, you go aggressively 
after them. And we do have some pretty effective enforce-
ment tools. Compliance can get very high, very, very 
quickly.’’; 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘That’s what 
these companies respond to is both their public image but 
also financial pressure. So you put some financial pres-
sure on a company, you get other people in that industry 
to clean up very quickly.’’; and 
Whereas in 2010, Mr. Al Armendariz said, ‘‘So, that’s our 
general philosophy’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that Congress considers Mr. Al Armendariz, 
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator for 
South Central Region (Region 6), to be not suitable to 
secure domestic energy development, and, therefore, 
should immediately resign. 
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