I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. Mr. LaMALFA. Indeed, it would be a loss for the American public to continue along that path. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the efforts in bringing this forward and the opportunity to have a…

For the last decade, there has been an ongoing renaissance in the United States in energy production. It has changed our geopolitics; our economy has been strengthened; our security has been enhanced; and there have been thousands of new…

I rise today in support of the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to serve as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Gorsuch has been nominated to fill the seat left vacant by the late Justice Antonin…

I don't want to quibble over details, but we actually held 13 hearings and passed four bills over the last three Congresses about this particular rule and found countless problems with it. That is why we are here today. I yield 3 minutes…

Nice to know that 2:30 in the afternoon is the dead of night. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Rothfus).

I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), another State that was promised, in the Clean Water Act, to have authority which was taken away by this simple rule.

The opposition to this particular bill goes from coast to coast. We just heard from California. Now we will go back to the East Coast. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho).

I yield myself the balance of my time to close. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of false science today, which is appropriate since the agency that concocted this rule refused to allow any of the data they used to make the rule to be made…

I now have the pleasure of recognizing people who are not on our committee but still know how silly this rule actually is. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Bost.)

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), a new Member of Congress, who realizes that this rule is long on regulations and short on real new protections for people. {time} 1445

I have said as much publicly, and I've also--I think everybody should know, every Member of Congress should know that the House Intelligence Committee is really the only organization within Congress that is set up to be able to do that.

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong, strong opposition to this legislation that seeks to overturn carefully crafted SEC anticorruption rules for extractive industries. Section 1504 requires that gas and oil companies…

Just the implication that transparency is going to hurt Putin's Russia is prima facie proof that we need these rules. What payments to Putin does Rex Tillerson not want shareholders and the American people to see? Today, we should be…

I would think it would be reasonable that in return for that... they would say: Yes. Here's my Instagram account.

It's a joke to think that you're not looking at social media.

I want to thank the gentleman from Fort Worth for yielding this time to me. I could just tell you that it is deja vu all over again. When President George W. Bush lost the election in 2000, he engaged in a lengthy investigation over…

This is an outstanding nominee. I've argued in front of this judge when he was sitting on the 10th circuit where he announced it. He's an outstanding judge, extraordinary.

This is the kind of judge we want sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court. Someone who reads the law in an effort to decide what it says rather than what he wishes it said.