Bruce Westerman

That 'siloed' thinking plagues most bureaucracies and agencies.

It is easier to blame the cow. Look up. Watch nature. She will talk to you.

Our segmented view of the landscape has led us to tragedy after tragedy.

We have created tragedy after tragedy across the West, and we need solutions.

I invite any legislator or regulator, state or federal, to come with me to this devastation. Leave your photographer behind, put on boots and let's go.

Let us all go forth from this hearing determined to evangelize to save our forests.

I agree, this should not be a partisan issue.

This saved the city of South Lake Tahoe from the Caldor Fire just 2 years ago.

I think after 50 years we are entitled to ask how the forest environment is doing.

I have no further requests for time and am prepared to close. I continue to reserve.

When an administration takes bad actions, then Congress has to take extreme measures to pull back the power that has been granted to the administration. I gladly stand behind the statement that it is time for Congress to reel back that…

Again, this move by Fish and Wildlife is actually going to hurt the population of the lesser prairie-chicken because it is going to disincentivize private investment that is shown to work. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman…

The demand for oil and gas is not going down. It is on an exponential increase.

This is unacceptable. BOEM needs to be held accountable for this.

BOEM is effectively implementing the Biden administration's policy of the attack on energy, which is an attack on America.

If we quit natural gas production, if it stopped, like many people are proposing, it affects fertilizer, which affects food, which means people are going to starve to death around the world.

I have always said the problem with the Biden administration's energy plan is twofold. It is physics and math.

National parks are obviously very important to all of us. I happen to live in Hot Springs National Park, which is a source of pride in Arkansas.

I think it could be very beneficial to our children, as they grow up, to have those outdoor experiences, as well.

This legislation would help more groups organize events so that veterans can become more connected to nature and to each other.

As a former Navy helicopter pilot, I know that she understands how difficult it can be for our country's veterans to return to civilian life.

It is now time to turn that talk into action, and that is exactly what Representative Kiggans is doing here today by leading the MVP Act.

When I became Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee earlier this year, I laid out a vision for our public lands with my Republican colleagues that was focused on increasing access.

Ronald Reagan once said that veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they have suffered the scars of war.

If indeed the issue is to offset any intrusion and incursion by the Chinese Communist Party, then issues such as offsets, revenue generation, I don't say they become secondary, but this should not be an impediment to moving forward with an…