I do appreciate the efforts of our two colleagues to be able to look at resources to actually help the crumbling infrastructure that we are seeing on a lot of our public lands, and trying to get a sustainable revenue system for that.

I am really glad to hear that. To accomplish that and the acceleration you talked about, and I am totally in support and really happy to see that.

I would respectfully disagree. I think that final assessment, as I read through that bill, it is actually also calling for renewable resources, not just oil and gas.

I thank my colleague from Hawaii for her support and great work in committee. This is something that has a lot of bipartisan support. Mr. Speaker, I would ask all Members to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The…

I have called for responsible, all-of-the-above energy policy on our Federal lands that includes, and we enumerate it in the bill, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, oil shale, coal.

I want to echo, this is a rough topic, Mr. Patterson, and we know you haven't been there that long. But we also know that it's urgent that we get this right.

It is unfortunate that we spend too little time thinking about families living in poverty, and especially children living in poverty in the United States.

Lynn Johnson... demonstrates what dedication to public service looks like, what it means.

I must express my appreciation to the chairman as well for incredible service in the Senate, distinguished service.

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 780 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 780 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I appreciate the opportunity today to be able to advance an important piece of bipartisan legislation. The Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act seeks to bring fairness to the Federal financial regulators' examination…

One thing that seems to be coming out from your testimony is that it is possible to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Buck) for the time, and I appreciate consideration of the rule here today. Mr. Speaker, both of the bills being considered under this rule amount to real relief for our Nation's…

As North Korea continues to expand its ballistic missile and nuclear capabilities, it has also been testing newly developed systems, which I think is a real problem.

I believe that it is a good thing that it is being proposed that we have more options, like low-yield weapons or sea-launched intermediate cruise missiles.

I thank Chairman Hensarling for his leadership on this issue, as well, and for considering this bipartisan legislation today. Mr. Speaker, the ever-growing burden and complexity of financial regulations is creating an environment of…

I wouldn't want to give them a get out of jail free card if they have acquired a property that has historic mining waste that they are legally obliged to clean up, but if they are just working next door to abandoned mines and they have no…

I have had Good Samaritan legislation pass, not a global solution, a more modest step that would take us part way down the road.