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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 14, 2024

We have a bipartisan bill called the Save Our Sequoias Act.

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 14, 2024

An ounce of prevention is worth many, many pounds of cure when it comes to our forests.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· May 12, 2024

It sounded like a bunch of weaselly, mealymouthed politics.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· May 12, 2024

It's like he was coached to say that, as if it was some magic talisman to help them walk the political line.

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James Hill
@jameshill· Republican · AR· May 8, 2024

I thank Chairman McHenry and the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Flood) for this excellent work in this Congressional Review Act resolution to roll back the SEC's failure in their Staff Accounting Bulletin 121. It would reshape the business…

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John Boozman
@johnboozman· Republican · AR· May 2, 2024

I am here today to honor Senator David Pryor, a lifelong advocate for Arkansas, who passed away on April 20 at the age of 89. Senator Pryor was a tremendous public servant who dedicated his life to making Arkansas better. His trademark…

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· May 2, 2024

I thank Senator Boozman. I join with Senator Boozman to honor former Senator David Pryor--a great Arkansan, statesman, and dedicated public servant. David Pryor first entered public office in the Arkansas State House of Representatives…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

As I talked earlier about the Constitution and how it is the legislature that makes the laws, it is not through an administrative rule and it is also not by court decision, not the third branch of government that gets to make the laws. It…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

With all due respect to my friend from New Mexico, I greatly appreciate her passion to protect this administration, to protect an administration that is having an attack on American mining, on American energy that is causing prices to…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

I just have to take issue with this issue about lackluster sales or lackluster lease sales. I note that the first ANWR lease sale was held in early 2021 during the throes of the COVID pandemic when oil prices were historically low, and the…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

I love the way my colleague across the aisle operates. He talks about deflecting when what he is doing is deflecting. He is trying to deflect from the issue in Alaska--where, once again, the Biden administration has failed miserably--by…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

I also appreciate Mr. Hern's leadership on the RSC and the establishment of the HEAT team and the efforts that they have been putting into making sure we are energy independent here in America. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· May 1, 2024

I thank the gentleman for his leadership on the HEAT team. I will also point out to the American people that the Biden administration is the gift that keeps on giving to Putin. Not only would they not put sanctions on the Nord Stream 2…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· Apr 30, 2024

As I was listening to my friend from Colorado's comments, I was reminded of a saying that a graduate school professor who taught statistics used to say: Numbers and people are a lot alike. If you torture them long enough, they will tell…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· Apr 30, 2024

This isn't just a minor rule. This is a major rule that the BLM is pushing out. When they held their listening sessions, they were located in places that were inconvenient for communities and stakeholders who are most affected by the rule…

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Bruce Westerman
@brucewesterman· Republican · AR· Apr 30, 2024

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the only rule or the only science that this bill would maybe not hold up to is the political science that is being pushed back and forth in this Chamber today. If you look at real…

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