Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Representative Polis of Colorado be removed as a cosponsor of H.R. 5545. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Palmer). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Louisiana? There was no…

Mr. Chair, in Louisiana, we understand quite clearly how good environmental policy, economic policy, energy policy march hand in hand. We also know that the men and women who work on these rigs are our friends, our neighbors, our family…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment would prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of implementation, administering, or enforcing any rule or guidance similar to the proposed guidance that the Bureau of Ocean…

Mr. Chairman, I yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves).

Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chairman, we need in this day and age to make sure that the American taxpayer is protected. We have seen time and time again when environmental disasters happen and…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the…

Mr. Chairman, my amendment will prohibit any money being spent for the implementation or enforcement of any rule or guidance similar to the well-controlled rule offered by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, or BSEE…

Mr. Chair, how much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana has 2 minutes remaining.

So, the modernization process, are you just going to kind of okay, we have to tolerate that until we replace, or are you attempting to reconcile that?

Mr. Speaker, the poor condition of America's infrastructure costs our economy hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Freight bottlenecks, aviation congestion, inadequate ports, and deteriorating roads will cost 2.5 million American…

Mr. Chair, I appreciate the gentleman from Louisiana for yielding and also for bringing up this amendment. Let's talk about reality versus fiction. Here is the reality. The reality is that these regulations have not been out there. They…

I have also understood that under your current VistA platform that one of the problems is that each VISN has done a customization of the VistA program for their VISN.

Mr. Chairman, I want to provide some context here. Under the Mineral Leasing Act, States shared in 50 percent of the revenues from production of energy on Federal lands--in the State of Alaska, it is actually 90 percent of the revenues--up…

Again, they will be required to publish their APIs as part of the RFP?

Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the gentleman from Louisiana for bringing this amendment up. Here is the reality. This is largely a solution in search of a problem. There has not been a single case in the history of offshore energy…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Genevieve Gorman, a legislative aid in my office, be granted the privileges of the floor for the remainder of the 114th Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

Mr. President, I come as a Senator, but actually I come wearing two different hats right now--two more hats aside from being a Senator. One of them is a teacher. I still teach at the LSU Medical School and have for the last 30 years, so I…

It is long past time to consider rewrite of the '96 Telecommunications Act.