The Department of Interior has refused to disclose adequate information.
the Obama Administration's Closed-Door Settlements on Endangered Species and People
If we increase the royalty, which we have now allowed to occur on naturally occurring soda ash in the United States, we are charging $25 mil...
If we increase the royalty... we are charging $25 million more annually for soda ash.
I would like to slip back in to the much more mundane topic of soda ash in Trona.
While the royalty rate was at 2 percent we enjoyed an increase in production and an increase in employment in the soda ash industry because ...
That conversation will not be being had with Members of Congress or the American people without asking this critical question of is the bord...
I do want you to know that we do think about that and we see it and we do thank you so much for your service.
I think we have an opportunity as a country to actually get something done on this very important issue this year perhaps.
At the same time we are asking you, can you tell us exactly how you are doing?
the same question that the American people are going to ask; and that is whether or not we have a high degree of comfort or confidence in wh...
We have an opportunity to do comprehensive immigration reform.
It is something that this subcommittee has had a lot of conversations about even during the last Congress.
I think many of us ... see an opportune time in our country, a sort of a pivotal time, a historic pivot perhaps, to get some sort of immigra...
In my view I think a better way to the state of border security is how effective we are at keeping bad people or bad things out of the count...
You do not want the Department of Homeland Security to be the stumbling block to comprehensive immigration reform for this country and it co...
I would like to visit about the lack of transparency in the process. What is the goal of avoiding transparency?
These are supposed to be rainy day funds, but it's supposed to be raining really hard before they can get them out, not just sprinkling.
