Since becoming a Member of Congress, one of my key policy concerns is how do we ensure that we have a robust agricultural sector.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2197) to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the York River and associated tributaries for study for potential inclusion in the National Wild and…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 23) to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes. The Clerk read…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This bill reflects decades of work, work by local citizens who organized to reject the dictates of the Federal bureaucracy and to protect public access and recreation. At the same…

Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Benishek), the author of the House legislation which is the companion to what we are voting on from the Senate.

Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp), another cosponsor of this legislation and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I urge the adoption of the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Hastings) that the House suspend the rules…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2259) to withdraw certain Federal land and interests in that land from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under the mineral and geothermal…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the legislation under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The legislation before the House today enjoys bipartisan and bicameral support in Congress and the strong endorsement of the affected local communities. Our colleague, Mr. Daines of…

Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Daines), the author of this legislation. (Mr. DAINES asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Hastings) that the House suspend…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2197 authorizes the National Park Service to study 11.25 miles of the York River in the State of Maine for possible inclusion into the Wild and Scenic Rivers program. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 was intended to…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to just point out that I have the privilege of chairing the House Natural Resources Committee, and the nature of that committee is such that we deal with a lot of…

Mr. Speaker, our Nation is, tragically, going broke. Our national debt, which has skyrocketed under this President, is clearly, by any measure, on a dangerous and unsustainable path, a path that, if unaltered, will leave our children with…

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her kind words, and I support this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

Workers deserve access to a broad spectrum of ideas with which to make their decisions whether or not to unionize.

It was encouraging to see a free and robust debate concluded by a fair secret ballot election.