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In circumstances where a foreign government attempts to be involved in an American election, that would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement to encourage it, to participate with it in any way…

As a Member of Congress, I think we are frustrated more than we would like with powers that we believe belong to us not being exercised.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all of our witnesses for being here.

I am not opposed to mineral withdrawals when appropriate and, in fact, have sponsored two pieces of legislation withdrawing a total of over 2 million acres of Federal land from extraction.

I will note that both of these bills are Democrat-sponsored, and that there is no Republican bill being considered at the hearing today.

The bill specifically says that the prohibition of leasing and development applies only to Federal lands, not tribal lands.

Am I correct in assuming that you and your peers are opposed to this bill, not because you don't care about Chaco culture or the land that your family has been on for decades, but because of your rights as a private landowner?

I must, however, raise a few concerns with the proposals before us today, which I fear lack the necessary consensus that is critical for measures of this scope.

However, the most concerning part of this hearing is that the Arizona bill, H.R. 1373, continues the Committee's troubling trend of taking up legislation introduced in another Member's district without consultation or support from that…

A key focus of mine is to strengthen the Bank and to strengthen the ability of our small business exporters to compete in foreign markets.

The Export-Import Bank is a critically important job creation tool right here in the United States.

This is a first step toward meeting our trust obligations to the sovereign first peoples of this country. I thank the chairman for yielding.

This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while riding on the back of a dinosaur.

But again and again and again, I hear my Democratic colleagues talk about how bad and how the system is failing Americans, which is a dramatic admission on their part, I think, because it is an admission that Obamacare failed.

It is important for policymakers to be transparent and hear from interested persons who may be affected by a particular policy.

Would you generally agree that policymakers make better policy decisions when they consider all data and facts before making the decision?

To engage in a colloquy with the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Grijalva). If we, indeed, are going to be serious about a legislative solution to Carcieri, then we need to work out some kind of compromise that could pass both Houses of…

May I inquire, first of all, if the gentleman from Arizona has any speakers. I do have several.