Paul Gosar

So this administration should be given credit for following Thomas Jefferson's footsteps, should it not?

If my friends across the aisle truly care about transparency, they would join me in pressuring the DOJ to release the requests of FOIA documents; unless, of course, this is a charade and they only care because it is Donald Trump as the…

The budget is our deal. Allocation of funds is Congress' deal. So we ought to be the ones stepping up and doing that process forwardly.

I thank the Chairman for having this hearing on FOIA. But I also find it odd that my friends across the aisle are complaining about the FOIA requests...

It could be a sleep drug, and it is laced. And they do not ever wake up. Is that true?

I quite understand the complexity of this, being a former prescription person.

So you would say that 70,000 people dying is a success?

70,000 people dying -- that, as a former prescriber of these types of drugs-- that does not look like a success to me.

A lot of those jobs are for the construction of solar fields, so they are temporary. They are not long lasting.

We do these better than anybody else in the world, and if new technology is so predicated upon it, we ought to be investing in this.

China has this policy, One Belt, One Road, and they are actually extorting much of the discipline and oversight and control of these rare critical minerals.

I don't think so. You can probably take that to the bank.

Delusional Federal mandates proposed in the Green New Deal will only topple America's dominance in the energy economy.

Legislating shouldn't be done in the dark.

The oil and gas natural industry supports 10.3 million U.S. jobs and nearly 8 percent of the U.S. economy.

This implication is manifested by the dramatic socialist resolution that was introduced last week, the Green New Deal.

Without a memo, the public is kept in the dark and members of this Committee are unable to prepare for an informed debate.

And I have heard over and over again that climate change is the problem with our forest burning up. That is not the case.

I called it the new alien and sedition act, so I think that's a pretty strong Statement to put in very general terms.

I must have been living in the twilight zone for the first six years of my first eight years.

I am fully in favor of this bill. Particularly, last week, when my colleague Andy Biggs and I took a bunch of our colleagues down on the border, we were assailed by our Border Patrol not having adequate weapons and not having enough…

Don't you think that is drive enough, that if our goal is to preserve these species, then we ought to look at enabling and empowering any and everyone to have a say in it.

Forty-five years ago, when the ESA was conceived, it was laudably designed so that anyone could work with the government to save a species.

I think that is clear from the text of the statute, as written.

Well, do we make a distinction that are consequences of human versus non-human factors in the petitioning process?