I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey will be postponed. Amendment No. 36 Offered by Mr. Van Drew The Acting CHAIR. It…

On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I want to speak about a young constituent of mine, an 11-year-old girl from Mesa, Arizona. She wrote me a few days ago to say that one day she wants to grow up to be a doctor or maybe even President…

A frustrated former Republican official who worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality also said regarding NEPA and H.R. 1, ``. . . we are spending 99 percent of our political capital on a set of reforms that will be of no…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I ask that people really stop and think about what we are asking here. This is not unreasonable where power lines interface with forested areas. Precautions like we are talking…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Westerman).

We already have a national strategy in critical minerals. The Democratic-passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act built on the Energy Policy Act of 2020 to give agencies broad authorities to responsibly decrease reliance on China by…

The amendment offered by my colleague from Florida, Mr. Donalds, requires the Secretary to submit a report to Congress that includes the status of uranium deposits in the U.S., information on the quality of these deposits compared to the…

There is a strategy for critical minerals, but whatever we do going forward, the essential protections that are in place for communities, the requirement of the Tribal consultation and being at the table, that is our obligation--our…

Why would we even look? If we already know that it contributes almost nothing to the problem, and the problem comes from somewhere else, we either have to fix the problem somewhere else or we have to come up with the rationale to allow…

Once again, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment, which would unnecessarily waive fundamental environmental laws for wildfire mitigation activity adjacent to roads. Madam Chair, the underlying bill we are considering today is…

It is simply a public right that the public has an opportunity to seek redress in the courts. To limit that should not be part of this legislation. I urge opposition to the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…

I rise as the designee of Representative Escobar, and I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 20103. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

This amendment would further restrict access to the courts to hold polluters accountable when they violate the law and unlawfully harm public health and the environment. The underlying bill already bars additional review of a permit…

This amendment attempts to accelerate pipeline construction, and it does so by undermining informed decisionmaking and meaningful review which falls under the National Environmental Policy Act and other established bedrock laws. We have an…

House Democrats filed several amendments to H.R. 1 that would help mitigate some of the outright damage to our climate, our communities, and our economic future that this bill would cause. Unfortunately, only 7 out of 95 were made in order…

My comments about uranium mining and the reports that are requested in this amendment, I am not arguing with the request. My point is that there is a history here of impacted communities. What do we do with waste? That challenge, the…

90 percent comes from Mexico and California, 10 percent comes from somewhere within Arizona, but basically nothing comes from Yuma County.

This evening, we are going to actually do a handful of things. Some of this is just sort of responding to some of the absurd conversations I have had this week. This is my moment when I apologize to the stenographer and clerk. Much of this…