This bill--supported by 85 organizations, including the Family Farm Alliance--would help address the environmental and economic threats of catastrophic wildfires.

There is no doubt we need infrastructure funding in this country. Too bad we couldn't have taken this bill through committee and debated that. But oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice first to deceive. Mr. Speaker, my, my, what…

It is great to represent the great State of Arkansas. I want to say thank you to the HEAT Team and to Mr. Joyce for holding this Special Order on the Democrats' assault on American energy. As gas prices have recently reached the highest…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for the hard work that went into preparing this NDAA. I rise today in support of one amendment in particular included in this en bloc package, which would add the bipartisan Alexander Lofgren Veterans…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 256. members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress Aderholt (Moolenaar) Amodei (Balderson) Barragan (Raskin) Beyer (Connolly) Blumenauer (Bonamici) Bowman…

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 thank the gentleman for his leadership in the past in getting bipartisan legislation in place. I remember a couple of years ago I was out around South Lake Tahoe and I saw the fruits of the efforts of Representative McClintock, working…

I thank the gentleman from Utah. I turn now to California, an area of California that is very dry, an area that has experienced a lot of forest fires. From talking to this gentleman, I know that a lot of those forest fires can be…

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 gentlewoman for highlighting how the drought is affecting the Midwest, not just the West, and for pointing out that our colleagues across the aisle and the administration not only have not taken any action and don't have a…