If the sequester levels go into effect in 2016 and years beyond, I mean, really it is not just aircraft carriers that are going to be impacted.

When is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service going to propose a grizzly bear delisting?

Is the FWS going to meet this deadline, and if not, please explain why?

Mr. Speaker, as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, I rise in support of the goals of National Agriculture Day, which is today, March 25. Agriculture remains the number one industry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, supporting…

Mr. Speaker, despite the recent military drawdown, our Nation continues to rely upon qualified and well-trained volunteers joining the military in order to regenerate our Armed Forces. Now, some of these young men and women have prepared…

We have lost hundreds of employees at Lawrence Livermore lab and the 80 scientists.

Unless we can give some assurance as to stability... they are leaving.

I wanted to raise the issue of the budget for fusion.

I do not believe that the Congress is going to accept the elimination of SOFIA.

While representing the people of the United States in Congress means important oversight of the Government agencies they create, it should also mean full cooperation of these agencies to ensure full and timely disclosure of requested…

Mr. Chairman, I thank Chairman Hastings and Chairman Lamborn and my friend from Ohio, Mr. Johnson, for introducing this important legislation. I had the great honor, for nearly 10 years prior to coming to Congress, to be on the North…

Like many in North Dakota, I am concerned the Obama administration is being selective in determining which energy producers are investigated or prosecuted.

Frankly, I don't find these investigations for truth to be 'mindless,' as depicted by the Ranking Member.

I spent nearly 10 years as an energy regulator in North Dakota. I oversaw 1,500 megawatts of new wind development.

I find it quite offensive, the terminology that we 'dragged a woman in here last year.'

What is your understanding of what a take is, given this new ruling that, to my knowledge, has not been challenged?

Except that, according to the judge's ruling, 'taken' is not as easily described, or as defined as perhaps it once was.

And I would submit to you the lack of these policies and the lack of the clarity is the evidence of the lack of transparency.