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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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May 10, 2023

The choice should be clear: producing American resources here at home creates jobs, promotes innovation, increases energy security, and leads to better global environmental outcomes.

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May 10, 2023

Our businesses, families, our communities, and America deserve better.

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May 10, 2023

We are killing our country with our own means.

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May 10, 2023

Our own regulations are killing us.

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May 10, 2023

Despite this Administration's best efforts, we can never spend our way out of the problems that America is facing.

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May 10, 2023

The Biden administration continues repeating the same talking points about the need to invest in infrastructure, underserved communities, and social and environmental justice.

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May 10, 2023

The price of a new car is a whopping $48,000, and even used car prices average around $26,500.

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May 10, 2023

The average price of gasoline was $3.53 a gallon. That is nearly a full dollar higher than when President Trump left office.

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May 10, 2023

Decisions made by CEQ have real impacts on American families, and it is time to face those facts.

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May 10, 2023

We have lower greenhouse emissions, stringent labor laws, yet continually seek to move the goal posts, which results in nothing more than outsourcing our resources needs to countries that routinely violate human rights laws.

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May 10, 2023

The left's race to achieve a clean energy standard is simply unsustainable, at least on the timeline that the Biden administration has set forth.

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May 10, 2023

Time and time again, we have seen President Biden abuse executive authority to promote his radical eco-agenda created by academics and social activists.

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May 10, 2023

The Biden administration has continued on a relentless march towards expansion, particularly by trying to reimagine the energy sector as a puppet of environmental activism.

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May 10, 2023

It might be the Southern. Is it your position that if there is any copper or nickel or cobalt mined in Superior National Forest, that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is over as we know it today?

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May 10, 2023

You can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.

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May 10, 2023

It needs to start with mining, though. We need that ore, and this is an opportunity to extract that ore domestically.

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May 10, 2023

About 3 years is what I understand.

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May 10, 2023

But we have an administrative state that tries to usurp the will of Congress, which, really, if you can tell, probably gets under my skin.

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May 10, 2023

It is interesting that it is not that we went through the environmental permitting process and found out there were problems; you can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.

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May 10, 2023

How long does it take to permit a mine in Canada in this area?

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May 10, 2023

I mean, up or down? Towards gravity or away from gravity?

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May 9, 2023

When the cost of sportsmen's activities go up, participation goes down.

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May 9, 2023

Sportsmen and women contribute hundreds of millions of dollars each year to wildlife conservation through the Pittman-Robinson and Dingell-Johnson programs.

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May 9, 2023

Unless you have the science clearly in hand, you must not promulgate regulations that will lead to the guaranteed loss of hunters and anglers from the landscape.

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May 9, 2023

I would probably propose to call it RAHA, Restoring America's Habitat Act, because that will do more to restore wildlife than anything else.

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