Bruce Westerman

Let's take the sword as once the young American Republic started to lead the free world.

The federal government systematically discriminate against American Citizens, not only on the island, but in all the five populated territories.

I am strongly inclined to Mr. Soto's and Miss Gonzalez-Colon's proposal, but it does trouble me...

Puerto Ricans, American Citizens from the island, are still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled.

The status convention offers a fourth option, or actually I would say a Pandora's Box of options.

It is great to be able to put those two processes side by side and to debate the merits of each one.

It is unclear why electing delegates to lifetime terms, to define what status options are available, is necessary.

If enacted, the Puerto Rico voters would need to ratify being admitted to the Union.

I sincerely hope that we can return to work in person soon.

A Representative in Congress from the State of Arkansas.

I have been hearing a lot of talk about a rushed process, but looking at the data, this process has taken 20 years.

The Republican party has historically been, and I believe is still today, the voice for those who have no voice. We value life and believe all people should be treated with dignity. I appreciate the gentleman from Texas for leading this…

I have proposed proactive natural solutions like the Trillion Trees Act that would restore our forest, promote reforestation, promote innovation, and promote market-based solutions for wood products.

We have got to produce more of our rare earth minerals here, in the United States, to fuel our green economy.

They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source.

From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually.

We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon.

I hope we can work as a Committee to address those areas, but I think we have maybe a difference of opinion on the best way to address these issues.

Climate change is real, and 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.

I know you are struggling. But my time is expired, and I appreciate your participation.

Yes. I think we have seen that illustrated in a lot of places where we need multiple sources of energy to have that reliability.

It seems like we were just here, debating a COVID relief bill that was not about COVID relief but Democrats' special interests. Now, we are debating the rule for the so-called For the People Act, but it is not for the people but against…

This is the second time today I have been here speaking against highly partisan Democrat wish list bills that fall under my committee's jurisdiction but never went through a markup. This so-called rescue plan is to COVID relief what…

I include in the Record this letter from the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce. It says that this bill, if passed, will negatively impact our already fragile economy and jeopardize our economic recovery. Grand Junction Area, Chamber…

I would love to visit the gentleman's district, take some photos so that we could show future generations what it looked like before it was locked away in wilderness, and maybe be able to talk about some of those forest management…