Bruce Westerman

In closing, I just want to go back through the facts as we know them. We know that we need to do better habitat management, whether it is forest, rangelands, oceans, rivers, or lakes. We know there are areas where we need to manage better…

I thank the gentleman from Idaho for making a point that it is really the underlying reason that we should be--or the underlying question we should be talking about is, Why do we need to recover America's wildlife? It is because we have…

I encourage the majority to put their estimates to the test. Let's make this a bill with a 7-year sunset like the amendment that I proposed. Let's come back, look at it, and see if it really did save money. If it really did save species…

This report does show that it will cost over $12 billion in the first 10 years and $1.4 billion thereafter. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Stauber).

I know that we all like the idea of dynamic scoring, and I spend a lot of money on hunting and fishing myself, as do a lot of other Members of Congress. But CBO, unfortunately, does not take that into account. I know we all think that this…

I will point out that even though there is a reporting requirement in the legislation, once you approve mandatory, permanent spending, then Congress loses our leverage. Creating a permanent program doesn't bode well for oversight from…

Due to a schedule conflict, I was unable to cast roll call votes on Friday, May 13th. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 178, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 179, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 180, ``yea'' on rollcall No…

Trees are by far the largest scale, they are the most pragmatic, proactive solution that we have to atmosphere carbon.

The atmosphere is a global entity. It does not have borders.

Right. So, when you build this battery plant, where are you going to get the lithium, the metals, the rare earths that are needed to build the batteries? Where will they come from?

So, we would have a lot of squeeze and not much juice out of this new law.

This looks like something you would see on a comedy skit. But, unfortunately, it is the sad reality of what it takes to permit a mine in Nevada.

I find it ironic that we are having a hearing on Mining Act reform.

I believe my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and even the administration seem to share the same goal--responsibly acquiring the minerals our country needs.

I am bewildered and disappointed when the Department of the Interior and many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle take actions and support bills--like the bill we are discussing today--to kill some of the most promising mining…

What we should be discussing today the true minerals problem--the alarming global shortage of hardrock resources needed for our future.

I cannot express how terrible this decision is for the country, not to mention tone deaf, in light of gas prices hitting new record highs this week at $4.40 a gallon.

The actions tend to show that we believe it is more climate change.

We definitely need to see some progress like last year.

If we come back in a year or 2 years, and there are not any results to show for the money that's being spent...

What about outside litigants? Does that stop any of it?

Is there a danger of doing prescribed fire without mechanical thinning first?

Sometimes it might seem like we are negative about the agencies, but I have traveled across the country...

We are going to talk about what we need to do with the trees that we have before we talk about planting more of them.

I think if the general public could see what we see as Members of Congress, there would be a huge outrage about what is happening on the southern border and our policies there.