Pearce recently attacked a tidy misnomered piece of legislation called the "DRILL Act", which is in essence a bill designed to keep regulation up for drilling on American soil so that responsible drilling may take place. Granted, the legislation would put major holds on privately owned oil fields and the 68 million acres federally owned off-shore until safe and properly countered measures had been taken to define the reserve levels and use proper environmental action, but, like anything worth doing, it will take time.

Pearce is in complete opposition of this bill, and blames the congressional majority for stalling drilling and plugging up the economy. His logic states that the economy is in a desperate state and such times call for speedy (if desperate) measures.