Today's hearing will explore that last point in greater detail.

As Chair, I am going to have to hold you to the five minutes.

Thank you very much, Professor Eagle, for your comments.

I can't imagine that we would do anything else but to go forward and take the responsibility upon ourselves.

Support for the enactment of the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act continues to grow, and I hope that the Senate will pass the bill this year.

I respectfully request and appeal to the Committee to include in its proposed budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2010 sufficient budgetary headroom to allow for Congress to pass legislation implementing the recommendations of the Guam War…

We are pleased to receive your testimony, and you are recognized for 5 minutes.

We need specific, practical, and constructive recommendations and priorities.

We begin the 111th Congress during a period of great uncertainty for our Nation.

The dynamic nature of our time suggests the need for a new conservation paradigm.

We have to share it.

I do know, Secretary Penn, and I will say for the record, that you have made every effort to work closely with our elected leaders in the legislature, and I thank you.

Madam Speaker, today the teaching of history to our children and young adults is an integral part of the learning experience and the American elementary and secondary education system. History is a formidable, important part of the…

House Resolution 1199 commends the Orange County, California Water District and its employees for their sound financial management and innovative groundwater management, water quality, water efficiency, and environmental programs upon the…

the gentleman stated that if you were an oil company, would you drill where there is no oil; of course not. And that is not the situation. The oil companies bid on these Federal leases. They pay for them because they believe there is oil…

in closing, I want to say, as Mr. Welch stated, ANWR, everybody keeps talking about ANWR. But if you opened ANWR today, you would not get any energy production tomorrow. You wouldn't get any for a decade or more. Whereas right now, the oil…

H.R. 2964, the Captive Primate Safety Act, was introduced by our colleague from Texas, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson. This bill amends the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the import, export, transportation, sale, receipt…

I find it interesting that a bill that was approved by the Natural Resources Committee by unanimous consent is suddenly objectionable to the minority. But I urge Members to support it.