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Bruce Westerman

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Bruce Eugene Westerman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district since January 6, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Westerman has focused on issues such as natural resources, forestry, and environmental policy during his time in office. He has been an advocate for sustainable forestry practices and has worked on legislation aimed at improving the management of public lands. Westerman has also been involved in discussions around economic development and job creation in Arkansas.

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Oct 17, 2023

It is not just negligence, it is a calculated move that strikes at the heart of American competitiveness.

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Oct 17, 2023

This plan is nothing short of sabotage to our nation's energy security.

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Oct 17, 2023

We will vote on the Floor some time. I don't have any----

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Oct 17, 2023

I have seen the sites where cartels are operating and the smuggling operations.

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Oct 17, 2023

I do want to again thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony and for the time that you spent here today.

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Oct 17, 2023

The caches of illegal weapons that have been found and how they are a threat to local residents just trying to live a good life.

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Oct 17, 2023

It is overwhelming to have these cartels. California, of course, being a border state, it is not going to slow down very much.

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Oct 17, 2023

So indeed, it makes me wonder how temporary are these thoughts of housing people in these places, and what term would that look like, then what do you do at the end of that term.

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Oct 17, 2023

What environmental impacts are being observed as a result of illegal immigration through Forest Service lands?

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Oct 17, 2023

I have a tremendous amount of respect for you and the work that you and your colleagues do across the country.

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Sep 29, 2023

We have all heard that life is about making choices. Serving in Congress requires making big choices on a big stage that are forever chronicled in our votes. Take out all the rhetoric and all the policy disagreements and, at the end of…

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Sep 27, 2023

I have told folks when we talk about tribal sovereignty, it is not just talk, we want to see action.

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Sep 27, 2023

The areas in Arkansas are much like the areas in Oklahoma.

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Sep 27, 2023

There is no waiving of NEPA. There is no short-cutting environmental protections.

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Sep 27, 2023

I wouldn't say policies, the actions of this Administration are, are to create uncertainty, to make the risk seem larger or unknown to drive investment away.

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Sep 26, 2023

I will also be submitting to the record an accounting of the National Disaster Emergency that was declared for Floyd Bennett Field...

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Sep 26, 2023

Thank you for your passion to speak out on this.

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Sep 26, 2023

It bothered me to hear that referred to as just an airport in Brooklyn.

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Sep 26, 2023

I would imagine there are probably more employees in the Park Service.

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Sep 26, 2023

I am sorry for what the Biden administration has done to you and I am sorry for what the Biden administration has done to our country.

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Sep 26, 2023

Our law requires that every asylum seeker be detained until their asylum claim has been adjudicated.

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Sep 26, 2023

The Democrats' open border policy is clearly unquestionably America's worst idea.

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Sep 26, 2023

The hypocrisy of declaring yourself a sanctuary city... and then protesting the result of that, is the ultimate comic tragedy.

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Sep 26, 2023

The other side wants to turn them into homeless encampments. And the Ranking Member here admitted today that the Biden administration has failed.

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