A patchwork of State-level laws negatively impacts what you're able to do.

I successfully pushed in the FAA bill when we had the language--and I was actually aiming at pipelines, an obvious exception that should have been made.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 99 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 99 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be…

Mr. Speaker, last week, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule for consideration of two important measures. First, the resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 428, the Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act. The rule provides…

It is easy to sit in Washington and talk about how everything is working well, but when you are out in the States is where you really have problems.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I just want to point out again that, while my friend is correct, we have two different pieces of legislation under a single rule, and those legislations, as my friend points…

The problem I have with it is that they are judge and jury and at the same time they want to be a cooperator.

That listing was so wrong that the courts reversed it.

It seems the information relied on for the listing was based on anecdotal historical evidence and poorly performed surveys.

Our Oklahoma farmers and ranchers are just now learning about a petition to list the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act.

I get no net loss. That makes sense. It is a Federal resource; you want to protect it.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Obviously, the gentleman and I have some disagreement here, but let's talk for a minute about the form of what we are doing. The gentleman is correct in that this rule covers two…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Actually, I listened with a great deal of interest to the debate from my friends on the other side. None of it had very much to do with the rule or with the underlying legislation…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I just want to point out for the record, Mr. Speaker, that actually this rule that we are trying to repeal, the measure we are trying to instate, doesn't force drug testing on…

Is there a way to be able to get an accurate number of the cost per patient per procedure that actually includes everything the private sector would include?

It is not hypocritical when somebody does not ask you where your sacred sites are.

It is a shameful way to treat Native Americans and the first people, and this must end.

That may be a good control to be able to look at it at some point.