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As the designee of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), 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)…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1376 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 1376 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order…
I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. On July 13, the Secret Service failed in its mission to protect President Donald J. Trump. By failing to properly secure the perimeter, by failing to adequately communicate about a security…
This amendment prohibits the EPA from using funds for actions pursuant to section 115 of the Clean Air Act. To be clear, section 115 of the Clean Air Act allows the EPA to mandate State emissions levels to whatever level the agency deems…
However, this agency with such important responsibilities has not been reauthorized for more than 2 decades.
I hope it will resonate that such a cut will negatively impact the agency's ability to police its derivative markets.
I don't know about significant delays. We are already experiencing significant delays. All these construction projects take decades to complete. If we are going to just keep doing the same thing, which apparently that is what the…
I thank my friend, the gentleman from Texas, very much for yielding time. I rise today in support of H. Res. 1367, which forms a task force to address the shocking attack on President Trump. I thank my colleague, Mike Kelly, very much for…
This amendment prohibits any of the funding from being used to carry out environmental justice activities. Let me explain this to you. Environmental justice is nothing more than the synthesis of divisive racial ideology and radical…
I rise as the designee of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger). 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: no…
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 145, line 13, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000)''. Page 226, line 4, after the…
Two summers ago, the EPA released a regulatory agenda which included the consideration of redesignation of ozone attainment in the Permian Basin. This wholly discretionary action would impose new regulatory burdens, new regulations on the…
I certainly agree that we need to work with other nations and our neighbors, everybody around the globe. We are living on the same planet, breathing the same air, drinking the same water, but the United States is a sovereign nation, and we…
This amendment strikes the funding for the Council on Environmental Quality. Now, it sounds lofty and awesome. The Council on Environmental Quality was created by the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969 to advance environmental…
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 know you can't believe it, but there is one left. Like I said, we are equal opportunity here. We are going to take a look at all of them. This amendment would halve the funding of the Southwest Border Regional Commission. This…
Continue to invest. Continue to invest. It is going to continue unless this amendment passes. We are going to keep throwing good money after bad. We are going to continue to invest in Chinese slave labor. It needs to be understood that the…
