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Problem:The Obama administration's top oil and gas regulator said Thursday that a proposed Republican regulatory bill would create "bureaucratic paralysis" for new drilling, turning the tables on GOP critics who accuse the administration of slow-walking offshore oil and gas permits. Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, said he supports some key provisions in the House GOP regulatory bill. But he said the Republican plan would divide regulatory work into two categories: those in which a lease has been issued and those without a lease, causing delays and duplication. 
  
 Bromwich spoke at a hearing by the House Energy and Mineral Resources subcommittee as his agency neared implementation of its own regulatory overhaul started after last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. That plan will divide BOEMRE into two agencies: the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Bromwich didn't say whether he would oversee one of the new bureaus, or leave the federal government when the reorganization takes place in two weeks. 
  
 During his testimony, Bromwich cited a Wall Street Journal article Thursday that suggested permitting activity in the Gulf is approaching pre-BP spill levels. 
  
 But Reps Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, and John Fleming, R-Minden, expressed skepticism, saying they are hearing a much different story from Louisiana industry representatives. 
  
 Still, the hearing had few of the hostile confrontations, particularly between Landry and Bromwich, that have marked previous energy hearings conducted by the new GOP majority. 
  
 Landry told Bromwich that it should come as no surprise to him that he wants to fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of more hiring and that, in his view, a key to accomplishing that would be for Bromwich's agency to issue more permits. 
  
 Bromwich said he was happy to save Landry some time from his five-minute questioning block and "stipulate" that Landry advocates for a more robust permitting regime. 
  
 But in an interview after his questioning of Bromwich, the freshman Republican accused BOEMRE of acting "like the CIA and Gestapo" as he recounted how he was recently blocked from visiting the bureau's New Orleans office. 
  
 Landry said he had to wait 20 minutes in the lobby for an agency official to come down and inform him that the top officials in the office weren't in the office and that he would have to return another time. Landry said he wanted to learn about some stalled permits brought to his attention by a constituent. 
  
 He said he wasn't given access to the employee overseeing the permits. Landry said he eventually received a copy of the agency's staff telephone directory, but only after he threatened to file a Freedom of Information Act request. 
  
 BOEMRE spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said the agency has arranged for Landry to tour the New Orleans office and meet with the agency's leadership team Sept. 30. 
  
 Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., said the GOP draft regulatory legislation is deficient because it doesn't include a provision recommended by the White House commission that investigated the BP spill to impose fees on industry permit applications to ensure that the agency has sufficient staffing to examine permits for safety and environmental issues. 
  
 Bromwich said he would like a regular financing stream, but in the end it matters little how the money is provided, only that there's enough to oversee offshore oil and gas development. 
  
 Chevron CEO John Watson said last week that the federal government is still taking too long to approve new offshore drilling applications, not because of animosity toward the oil and gas industry but because of staffing shortages. Bromwich, in a speech, placed some blame on the oil and gas industry for submitting what he said were incomplete applications. 
  
 Gregory Rusovich, chairman of the Business Council of Greater New Orleans and the River Region, disputed Bromwich's assessment. 
  
 "We do not need more regulations and bureaucrats strangling our energy sector," Rusovich said. "We need honest, appropriate oversight which is guided by clear and understandable rules to ensure safe energy production." 
  
 Bruce Alpert can be reached at balpert@timespicayune.com or 202.450.1406. 
  
  
  
  ||||| Rep. Jeff Landry has no regrets for comparing the nation's lead offshore oil and gas regulatory agency to the Gestapo and will not apologize. 
  
 "Absolutely not, not one," Landry (R-La.) said Tuesday evening when asked whether he had any regrets. "I mean I didn't name-call them. I used it as an adjective or an adverb in saying it was like, it was similar." 
  
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 Last week, Landry said BOEMRE was acting “like the CIA and Gestapo” after he said he was recently unable to meet with BOEMRE staff during an unannounced visit to the New Orleans branch to talk about stalled oil drilling permits, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. 
  
 "I mean at the end of the day it's a term referencing how the actions are being out there," Landry told POLITICO on Tuesday. "I mean I'm not going to get into this political niceness. You know, it's a fact. The man is not allowing U.S. congressmen to visit their offices. There's something wrong with that." 
  
 BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich complained Monday, saying agency officials in the New Orleans office were “deeply disturbed” by the congressman’s choice of words and characterization. 
  
 “They are aware, as I am sure you are, that the Gestapo were the German internal security police under the Nazis, known for its terrorist methods,” Bromwich wrote in a letter to Landry. “Your comparison of the minor inconvenience you experienced to the tactics and methods of the Nazi secret police is simply unacceptable from anyone, but especially from a public official.” 
  
 Bromwich added: “I would strongly suggest you consider a public apology to our personnel, which include many of your constituents.” 
  
 The agency canceled a scheduled Sept. 30 meeting with Landry after his characterization to the Times-Picayune. 
  
 Landry says Bromwich is the one who should say he's sorry. 
  
 "The people in my district are suffering down there. I've got no apologies, if anything he owes me and the people in my district an apology," Landry said. "It is what's wrong with Washington in the federal bureaucracy. We — the people of my district along with every other United States citizen — pays their check. It isn't the other way around. No apologies." 
  
 This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 8:42 p.m. on September 20, 2011. |||||
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Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry is standing by his charge that the nation's leading offshore oil and gas regulatory agency is acting "like the Gestapo." Asked if he had any regrets using the name for Hitler's deadly security force, Landry replied: "Absolutely not. I didn't name-call them. I used it as an adjective or an adverb in saying it was like, it was similar." Landry made the accusation last week after Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement staffers didn't arrange a last-minute meeting during his unannounced visit to the New Orleans branch to discuss drilling permits, reports the Times-Picayune. "I'm not going to get into this political niceness," the GOP congressman told Politico. "The Man is not allowing US congressmen to visit their offices. There's something wrong with that." BOEMRE Director Michael Bromwich said New Orleans officials were “deeply disturbed” by Landry's choice of words “They are aware, as I am sure you are, that the Gestapo were the German internal security police under the Nazis, known for its terrorist methods,” Bromwich wrote in a letter to Landry. “Your comparison of the minor inconvenience you experienced to the tactics and methods of the Nazi secret police is simply unacceptable from anyone, but especially from a public official. I would strongly suggest you consider a public apology to our personnel, which include many of your constituents."