Bruce Westerman

I thank the gentleman from California, and I also agree with him that we haven't taken action. D.C. is fiddling while the West burns again. Here we are, getting ready to break for August recess with nothing to show, nothing to tell the…

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Bush). The gentleman has 27\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I thank the gentlewoman for reminding us that we do need to have our priorities in order, that there are important things that we are failing to address here in Congress. We are getting ready to break for the August break, and nothing will…

I thank the gentleman again for his leadership on the Congressional Western Caucus. I thank him for the solutions-based approach he takes to problems, whether it is drought or other issues that we face with natural resources across the…

I thank Mr. Obernolte for bringing his expertise in water to the House floor. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse), the chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, someone who is no stranger to…

I thank the gentleman for his comments and for his work and for his solutions approach to what we can do to intervene in these drought situations. Next I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Obernolte), who is no stranger to dry…

I thank Mr. Stauber for his leadership on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and his participation in all the things we work on trying to do conservation through the Natural Resources Committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the…

I again urge adoption of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I would note that at our committee markup earlier this month, as the gentlewoman has stated, we added a bipartisan amendment to name this bill after a wounded veteran who, sadly, passed away earlier this year. Alexander Lofgren was a…

I also include in the Record several news articles that speak to the importance of this bill that have appeared in papers all across the country. Honoring America's Real VIPs (By Reps. Bruce Westerman (R-ARK.) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks…

I urge adoption of this bill and strongly support creating this memorial, and I yield back the balance of my time.

This is a great bill to honor our heroes and to say thank you in another way. I urge a ``yes'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1500

Wouldn't it be fair to say we would be in a better position, had some of that storage been built?

Absolutely, storage is critical.

The Smokey Project on the Mendocino National Forest is an example of how litigation and critical habitat designations can interfere with much-needed forest restoration activities.

This ping-pong approach continually fails to provide certainty to people, species and our environment.

That is really not a plan. The ping-pong approach continually fails to provide certainty to people, species, and our environment.

The end result of this will be more destruction, as this locked-up land will eventually be engulfed in catastrophic wildfires.

These decisions will reverse millions of dollars of successful conservation efforts, and will shut the door on future investment.

The Administration should provide a long-term strategy for doing this, not just pave the way to the next disaster.

We believe that conservation, not preservation, of our natural resources is the best policy.

Government fiat can quickly replace abundance, and replace that with scarcity.

The bill that passed the committee was partisan and wasteful. As expected, the Speaker succeeded in making a bad bill even worse. That is crazy, but that is how it goes. And things are going wrong for rural America in this bill. In fact…

I am glad to hear the gentlewoman is going to work to see the Billy Graham statue is quickly added, and I ask that she does the same for Arkansas statues of Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates. Madam Speaker, we don't need a do-nothing messaging…

In her opening remarks, the gentlewoman quoted Maya Angelou earlier. And since Maya Angelou spent her childhood in my district in Arkansas, I wholeheartedly agree with the words of Maya Angelou that we can do better. But I am not convinced…