Robert Aderholt

There is broad consensus that construction and eventual operation of this facility is crucial to our national security. This language that we have included in the CR will help ensure that we get this project done while existing firm…

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to add $510 million to assistance to firefighter grants by devastating the Department of Homeland Security's developing science and technology programs. It's only prudent that we use this money…

Let me just clarify that the number of screeners is capped at 46,000 right now. Let me assure you that we will continue to monitor that to make sure that your concerns from when you were chairman of this subcommittee-- and of course the…

Let me say, Mr. Chairman, that I realize the importance that these grants do contribute, and the bottom line right now is we simply can't afford it in the position we're in right now. As we move forward for the FY12 budget, I'll be happy…

Half of the nation's prison population is clinically addicted to drugs and alcohol.

At a moment in our history when federal government must make judicious economic choices, and we understand that, why would we suddenly abandon the one thing that it shows is so unbelievably effective?

But it will only be effective if we have the funding for the Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program.

I am deeply concerned, as are the judges throughout the nation who are such huge believers in drug courts, that there is not direct funding for the Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program.

There are fewer and fewer big fish because all the big fish are the reproductive fish and we have caught them.

You also make fishermen go out in really bad weather because they have got to catch it within their time limit.

The catch share is, look, we will sell you a share and you go out and catch that fish any time you want.

I think any cuts in the wet side is really unacceptable because it is a time when we are really having to spend more.

Of the $5.5 billion that NOAA gets, $2.2 billion goes to satellite programs, almost half of the entire budget.

The legislation being proposed by Senator Dorgan and Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, the legislation they have put together, has a good framework for us to be able to move forward to address justice and law enforcement issues on…

The surface water temperature is now 5 degrees warmer than it used to be.

I see it in Montana, where I visited Glacier National Park... the glaciers at Glacier National Park will no longer be there in the year 2020.

I see Pelican Island, the first national wildlife refuge, essentially disappearing because of the fact that the sea is rising.

We have allowed oil and gas exploration and development to move forward in the right places and at the right time.

I already know of one major energy company (actually the second largest producer of natural gas in the United States) that will not lease on Federal lands because they think the conditions are so onerous.

What worries me here is I think you are going to have a lot of companies--because they do operate on those economic incentives--say, 'Look, I am not going to automatically agree to produce in a certain time frame when I don't know what the…

We look at the President's request as a suggestion--ultimately, we have to write the appropriation bill.

I don't support repeal of the Antiquities Act, because there are appropriate times it ought to be used.

The only way any of these things are sustainable is if the public supports them in the long run.

I asked him at the time, I said, 'You know, if this is what you want to do, let me introduce a bill and we will do it legislatively, the way it should be done.'

I would suggest that in a lot of these areas that you suggest may qualify for national monument designation it would be good, if you know this in advance, to start working with Members of Congress and do it legislatively, if possible.