Rick Crawford

Amtrak must strive to use its taxpayer money responsibly, and in a way that attracts riders and makes a profit.

Supporting MSA Reauthorization will help to adapt to changing migratory patterns, incorporating climate science to properly manage our fisheries.

American manufacturing stands to benefit from both a more efficient network to move goods to market and the increased demand generated for domestically produced iron, steel, and manufactured goods.

Amtrak should not be spending its taxpayer-provided bailout money on foreign goods, while cutting American jobs and services.

I feel it necessary to remind Amtrak that while I strongly support our nation's passenger railroad, Amtrak must heed, and not ignore, Congress' desire that it work well with others.

I am troubled that Amtrak is receiving and requesting record amounts of funding, while cutting services of thousands and thousands of jobs.

Our great Veterans deserve the best care and should have never been exposed to the personal tragedies that resulted from Mr. Levy's malpractice.

I do not really want to go back home to my constituents in Arkansas and say that their Federal tax dollars went to help a state-owned enterprise of China to access mass transit projects in places like Los Angeles.

I was proud to join 390 of my colleagues in passing H.R. 1616, the European Energy Security and Diversification Act, to facilitate the export of U.S. energy resources to Central and Eastern European countries.

I want to commend you on the regulatory reform that you are undertaking.

If there's wrongdoing in any federal agency, we have a responsibility to expose that and take the appropriate action.

We have a responsibility to exercise oversight over federal agencies and DOJ and FBI are not exempt from that.

The President has indicated that private dollars can be leveraged with public funds to repair crumbling infrastructure.

There is a path forward. It is going to take wisdom and discernment, and nobody has the exact right answer.

It is not that difficult for us to look at this in a different light, understanding that 55 years hence, nothing positive has been yielded by the current posture.

I am concerned that if we are not actively engaged in Cuba at this point, that there is a void of American leadership.

I don't think we are acting like Canada, I don't think we are acting like France, we need to be acting like the United States.

They derive their livelihood from the land, and I believe they can be trusted because of that to be good stewards of that land without an overreach of the Federal Government.

I think what we have seen here today is a demonstration of a marked contrast between environmental activism versus active environmentalism.

The ESA, frankly, has become a litigious dream, and I will say that very bluntly.

To address this issue, Representative Crawford's bill, H.R. 4319, will mandate the exclusion of property from a critical habitat designation where the economic impacts analysis shows that the benefits of the parcel's exclusion outweigh the…

Its implementation through critical habitat designation should not go without considering the true economic impacts to the human species, in other words our lives and livelihoods.

A process that allows a full and complete economic impact study before critical habitat areas are declared would clearly be a better approach.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used an approach in the past for many years that measured the true cost of designating particular areas in terms of lost use, increased cost and loss of jobs.

The Federal Government would not examine how this broad designation could cost the people and businesses of my district the loss of the use of their land, the loss of their jobs, or the very real threat of new, burdensome, and unexpected…