We have to get serious about this.

We are spending billions of dollars on Everglades restoration and then a species like this comes in and really puts that investment at risk.

No matter how much water is moving through the Delta, it seems, the fish always need more, and the Federal Government, hamstrung by the Endangered Species Act, gives it to them.

Instead of harvesting El Nino rains to irrigate the Nation's produce and refill our reservoirs, the government is sending El Nino water underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and out to sea.

Every day that goes by not doing something, we just dig ourselves into a deeper hole.

I think it was Albert Einstein who once said, if you want to destroy the human race, destroy the bee population of the world, and it will all be over.

Regardless of one's belief in the President's climate change agenda, his drive--your drive--to succeed has been devastating to the people of West Virginia and to the tens of thousands of others across this country who work to fuel this…

This Congress is trying its best to stop your agenda, an ideologically-driven agenda hell-bent on shutting down the use of fossil fuels for energy production.

Unfortunately, I am struggling to understand why this budget, with all these increases elsewhere, cuts discretionary funding for DERA by 80 percent and also proposes to eliminate the Targeted Air Shed Grant program.

I am as outraged about this as you are.

This is just terrible.

Of course, it was signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

As a businessman, to me, there are ethical issues involved here by some concessionaire who took advantage obviously of not notifying you of this change.

I am going to make a wild guess here that we are going to be level-funded in our allocation.

We will do our very best to address the service's highest priority needs, but we also need to face our budget reality.

I think the Jones Act has a tremendous amount of utility, especially in situations as we face potentially with capacity within our sealift ability.

I think it's unfortunate that we keep making the EPA the bad guy here, especially when they've never enforced this against racecar drivers.

I do hope that if we are the Committee of markup for H.R. 4715 that the EPA has a chance to talk about the implications of 4715 on the people we actually want to enforce the law against, not the racecar drivers.