Bruce Westerman: “We are exporting wealth from the United States, many times, to our adversaries because of a not-in-my-backyard mentality”

By passing this commonsense legislation, the House will ensure that we can continue conserving vital waterfowl habitats for years to come. This is important for sportsmen and -women who depend on healthy wetland habitats for hunting…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Arkansas is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I commend Representative Harder for his bipartisan work and his hard work to bring this important bill to the floor. Madam Speaker, I have no further requests for time. I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Our friends across the aisle want to talk about being serious, but when we marked up this legislation in committee, here are some of the serious amendments that they put out. Number one, they wanted to rename it not the Gulf of America…