Today, I rise today to honor Christopher Evans, a teacher at Basha High School in my district. Mr. Evans was one of 52 Americans who received the James Madison Fellowship, which is awarded to one distinguished educator from each State…

We have a problem when we can't even agree on prioritizing $1.5 million additional money to maintain national parks. Washington, D.C., on the Mall alone, has $1 billion in maintenance backlog. And Arizona, for instance, has one-half…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $2,400,000)''. Page 14, line 10, after the first…

The reality is that there is no reliable and affordable alternative to fossil-fuel-generated power at this time.

Like it or not, power generated by fossil fuels is and will continue to be America's core source of base load electricity.

thank you very much today for the opportunity to discuss the importance of paid parental leave and how it might be provided on an affordable basis via the Social Security program.

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding time to me. You know, an old Arizona farmer told me that when you put up a fence, the cow almost always goes over and leans on the fence to see how strong that fence is, because the…

So we hear about the impacts of ozone on health, but we just talked about you could actually eliminate all industrial outputs and still fail to meet the NAAQS requirement levels.

We cannot continue to punish states for emissions it cannot control.

The tragic result is that the Clean Air Act ends up burdening the very Americans it seeks to help--more often than not, hard-working people living in rural areas.

I sincerely hope this Committee will fulfill its duty to conduct congressional oversight of the EPA's science programs.

Simply slapping a 'nonattainment' designation on areas where ozone emissions are not even originating is both unfair and devastating to business in the state.