the Republicans are saying the sequestration, which they created, which has cut your budget back to below 2008 year leve...
Our Nation is already threatened with a credit downgrade, close to the point of default, because the Republicans have li...
Are we meeting here today to amplify the efforts of Senator Cruz, Senator Lee and Sarah Palin last Sunday on the network...
The Republican-caused government shutdown is irresponsible, causing credible economic hardships to the public servants y...
Instead of trying to prevent economic hardship, potential financial catastrophe, we're having a hearing that is at best ...
This hearing is a sideshow, it's political theater.
The Republican majority closed down the Federal Government in a vain attempt to repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act;...
You can't create something and then pretend you are outraged by the results, which is what I am hearing from the other s...
they aren't doing anything by keeping the government closed to help those in rural areas who want to work.
And you think that this could have an impact on water quality?
If EPA determines that there is no way to put a mine in this region without unacceptable water quality and fishery impac...
their shutdown is making this fantasy a reality, grinding the entire Federal leasing and permitting system to a halt.
Bristol Bay deserves a particularly hard look. It is an important economic driver for both the State of Alaska and the e...
You know, it's been said that this is this national war, this Federal agency coming in to a place where it is not wanted...
Isn't it true that there would be hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic tailings or potentially leachate tailings, that...
The EPA is right to be doing their watershed assessment, they're right to be taking a close look at mining impacts, and ...
I heard some incredible hyperbole, no offense, Mr. Chairman, during the opening remarks.
We are taking testimony on an issue and an area upon which this committee has no jurisdiction...