"I couldn't think of a better time to hold this hearing, considering that this year marks the 160th anniversary of the awarding of the first Medal of Honor, and today is also the 175th anniversary of the start of the women's suffrage movement."
"We need to make sure that we have the right ranges, right capabilities so that we can train."
"President Biden has transformed the once small staff from their core mission of ensuring NEPA compliance into a legion of people implementing social change and ecojustice initiatives across the Federa..."
"The explosive growth of CEQ's mission and bureaucratic morass is mirrored in the dramatic rise of their budget."
"In many ways, CEQ has acted as the enforcers for every anti-energy and unscientific ecoagenda that President Biden has prioritized via Executive Order."
"CEQ's own chief of staff has described the responsibilities and powers bestowed upon the agency by President Biden as unprecedented."
"this rule would devastate rural economies across the West under the guise of conservation."
"it is the elected representatives facing off against the unelected bureaucrats."
"we don't think career bureaucrats buried in some cubicle over in some nondescript building should be determining what happens out on our Federal lands."
"we do control the purse strings."
"U.S. focus on this area has been less than optimum for years."