Mr. Chair, during rollcall vote No. 426 on H.R. 5538, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``yes'' when I should have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 21 Offered by Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the…

Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 70, strike line 1 and all that follows through page 71, line 18. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

Mr. Chairman, it always warms my heart to hear my Republican colleagues embrace science. It is a beautiful thing. I wish it happened a lot more often. In this case, we have had 30 years of study. We know a lot. The administration has…

Mr. Chairman, I am glad that my colleague from Florida brought up the Deepwater Horizon tragedy because it was 6 years ago this week, actually, after 87 terrible days of the worst oil spill in history, that the BP Deepwater Horizon's…

Mr. Chairman, this amendment strikes section 122 from the underlying bill. That section would prevent the BLM from meeting its statutory obligations under the Mineral Leasing Act to ensure operators ``use all reasonable precautions to…

It is critical that we do all we can to prevent avoidable foreclosures and minimize the downward drag they exert on communities of color and the economy overall.

By one estimate, homeowners particularly in communities of color lost $1.1 trillion in wealth.

Turkey is our important ally in an increasingly complex region.

So that I am not upset about.

the distinction between the two is becoming clear. I know these hearings should be about real policy issues and not about politics, but apparently what I am hearing--and you are subject to it--you are just hearing the differences, where…

Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer a commonsense amendment that redirects funds from EPA bureaucracy to the Forest Services' hazardous fuels account in order to prevent dangerous wildfires. In 2015, over 10 million acres burned throughout the…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $70,000,000)''. Page 95, line…

Madam Chair, while the bill does include nearly $2.9 billion for wildfire activities, which I am thankful for, most of these dollars are focused on suppression activities. As I stated previously, the 2015 fire season set a new record…

It is discouraging. And I call on all of us who voted for that bipartisan bill...bring back that bill, keep out the bad stuff.

I would be happy to invite my dear friend and colleague to southwestern New Jersey, where we have cranberry bogs, peach orchards, blueberries, and there are rural parts of the State.

Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert).

Madam Chair, how much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen). The gentleman from Arizona has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Mr. Chairman, Congressman Grijalva, who represents southwestern Arizona, is seeking to lock up 1.7 million acres in northern Arizona, at the behest of special interest groups, for the sole purpose of preventing mining, retiring grazing…