The Interior secretary frequently talks about an idea that he says could help tackle the national debt crisis.

Hamm is not the only oil executive or lobbyist who has cultivated ties with Burgum, emails and office schedules show. Ryan Berger, a lobbyist for Occidental Petroleum, emailed Burgum's staff last year ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum paused the construction ... to the potential effects from the project,” Burgum wrote in a memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “This halt is to remain ...

Doug Burgum ... Under the partisan glare of Washington and faced with stricter federal ethics rules governing conflicts of interest, Burgum has pledged to sell his interest in his family ...