Bruce Westerman

Do you anticipate any hiccups in the process, or delays?

Thank you, Chairman Stauber. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law (P.L. 117-58) on November 15, 2021.

The message that the public is getting is that Fish and Wildlife doesn't want to manage fish and wildlife refuges for fish and wildlife anymore.

I would do everything in your power to pull these rules back before they become final.

I really believe that decision was made way above the level of the Interior Department.

An ounce of prevention is worth many, many pounds of cure when it comes to our forests.

We have a bipartisan bill called the Save Our Sequoias Act.

A Representative in Congress from the State of Arkansas.

Thank you, Chairman Tiffany.

I just have to take issue with this issue about lackluster sales or lackluster lease sales. I note that the first ANWR lease sale was held in early 2021 during the throes of the COVID pandemic when oil prices were historically low, and the…

I also appreciate Mr. Hern's leadership on the RSC and the establishment of the HEAT team and the efforts that they have been putting into making sure we are energy independent here in America. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I love the way my colleague across the aisle operates. He talks about deflecting when what he is doing is deflecting. He is trying to deflect from the issue in Alaska--where, once again, the Biden administration has failed miserably--by…

I thank the gentleman for his leadership on the HEAT team. I will also point out to the American people that the Biden administration is the gift that keeps on giving to Putin. Not only would they not put sanctions on the Nord Stream 2…

As I talked earlier about the Constitution and how it is the legislature that makes the laws, it is not through an administrative rule and it is also not by court decision, not the third branch of government that gets to make the laws. It…

With all due respect to my friend from New Mexico, I greatly appreciate her passion to protect this administration, to protect an administration that is having an attack on American mining, on American energy that is causing prices to…

As my colleague, Mr. Bentz, read from the Federal Register and then my friend from Colorado read from the rule, the summary of the rule, I thought what would be more intellectually honest is if that summary said the proposed law because…

This isn't just a minor rule. This is a major rule that the BLM is pushing out. When they held their listening sessions, they were located in places that were inconvenient for communities and stakeholders who are most affected by the rule…

As I was listening to my friend from Colorado's comments, I was reminded of a saying that a graduate school professor who taught statistics used to say: Numbers and people are a lot alike. If you torture them long enough, they will tell…

I appreciate the gentleman pointing out some important facts about how this rule came to be from this administration that is anything but transparent. It is an administration that rejects any kind of oversight. I couldn't even start to…

I serve as the co-chair of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, and I would like to point out that not only does the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation endorse this legislation, but so do organizations such as the Mule Deer Foundation…

Running down any kind of animal and running over it with a vehicle is not considered hunting in any jurisdiction that I know of. That is illegal, it should not be tolerated, and it shouldn't be used as an example of why wolves shouldn't be…

I want to point out that although the accusations have been made that hunting would adversely affect the populations of wolves, that is contrary to proven data that we have from all species that are hunted. In particular, in each State…

Backing up this record of success, in February, the Service announced it had denied two petitions related to the gray wolf, one calling for wolves to be relisted in the Northern Rocky Mountains ecosystem and another calling for wolves to…

The Biden administration's recent actions to restrict access to this treasure trove of vital and increasingly scarce minerals simply does not make sense for our national security, for the people of northern Minnesota, or even for President…