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: texas kangaroo rat Sec. ___. None of…

I urge all of my colleagues to support my amendment to stop the Federal land grab happening in my district by the Biden-Harris administration's radical Fish and Wildlife Service. My amendment will prohibit the implementation of the…

I urge all of my colleagues to support my amendment to rein in the overreach of the Fish and Wildlife Service under the Biden-Harris administration by restoring funding to the fiscal year 2021 level. Under this administration, the Fish 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: Page 7, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,268,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Ohio's comments, and I understand that the government does spend too much money. I am also interested in looking for ways we can stop useless or wasteful spending. However, I will say that you are right…

Amarillo, Texas, is home to the Pantex plant, our Nation's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. The saying within the nuclear enterprise is ``all roads lead to Pantex'' because this facility in my district is a mandatory…

I will say that as a marine biologist, I am totally in full support of making sure that we do not do things that drive a species into extinction. I will say, however, that there must be a balance with an economic impact, and the economic…

The amendment that I have put forward here would prohibit any of the funding in the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill from being used to carry out President Biden's executive orders on climate change. Now, we have…

I am proud to advocate for funding in this bill and the rule that underlies it. It is interesting to hear the ranking member from Massachusetts talk about how this is all about corporations. We are going to talk about energy. You heard the…

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 funds made…

This is not about looking backwards. It is about looking forward. That is the whole point. We are going to talk about, oh, we are going to have 400 million people or 450 million people, great. Fine. We should grow as a country. By the way…

If the Endangered Species Act were so important to my colleagues, then we wouldn't go 30 years without reauthorizing it. If it is a national priority, then we ought to look at it, do our congressional oversight jobs that we were sent here…

it has been a remarkable couple of weeks in our country: the attempted assassination of President Trump; the decision made by President Biden to--notwithstanding having won all the primaries and being, essentially, the chosen leader of the…

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 funds made…

My amendment fully defunds the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EERE. I offered this amendment because we cannot, in my view, continue to fund the destruction of United States energy to satisfy the…

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 funds made…

I would note that FERC Commissioner Mark Christie exposed this rule for what it is: ``The final rule inflicts staggering costs on consumers by promoting the construction of trillions of dollars of transmission projects, not to serve…

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 Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 55 Offered by Mr. Roy The Acting CHAIR. It is now in…