Paul Gosar

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Well it'll be interesting to find out.

Let's look at the person that actually started the rally.

I thank the gentleman from Washington. Mr. Speaker, the two speakers have now brought up the issue that the House has repeatedly passed resolutions and ideas in regards to funding and taking care and mitigating our forest tragedy. There is…

I now yield to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse), my dear friend.

I want to highlight one thing that the gentleman actually brought to attention. Catastrophic fires also cause significant damage to the environment. Robust data from NASA has concluded that one catastrophic wildfire can emit more carbon…

I thank the chairman so greatly for his indulgence in coming down and expressing the problems that have been faced in Oregon and thank him for the timely hearing tomorrow in Energy and Commerce. We certainly appreciate it. We need to…

I thank the gentleman from California for his thoughts. He brought up some specific facts that need reiteration just because they are so plentiful. The Forest Service only harvested 2.5 billion board feet in 2016, compared to over 10…

I thank my friend from Utah, who has seen the challenging aspects and destruction from the fires, for his remarks. I also now want to acknowledge my friend from Montana, who is actually still seeing the ravaging of the fires. In fact…

I thank the vice chairman for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Stewart).

Nuclear energy is one of the most reliable and stable energy sources in the world, and we should continue to look to advance further development in the secure storage of used materials.

Government created this radioactive mess, and we have a clear and unavoidable responsibility to finally clean it up.

He believes that -- that, you know, he's got success in mind, and he's got outcomes that he wants to make sure. He's a businessman.

The president actually has the opportunity to pardon, as he sees fit. Just like Mr. Clinton and just like President Obama did in regards to that.

They politicized this and no one can say otherwise. It was very politicized all the way through there.

When you talk about a justice system that was so negligent from the Obama administration, and set up Joe Arpaio from his day one, whether it'd be Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch, that's hardly an application of the rule of law.

What he wants to make sure is that, what he promised the American people he's getting done.

Racial profiling is not OK no matter how shape, when or where. But from the standpoint of where this application was with Joe Arpaio, you know, hardly when you politicize it, do you have a rational application of the law.

Isn't it interesting that he wasn't (INAUDIBLE) a fair aspect of a trial because he asked for a jury trial. So from that standpoint this was railroaded all the way through.

The pardon reflects the very reason we voted President Trump into the Oval Office, to uphold the rule of law.

Once again, when you politicize the law, when you forbid the individual from a jury trial, I think you got a big problem in the efficacy in regards to the rule of law the way it is applied.

Isn't it true that the EPA, under the direction of Administrator Scott Pruitt, recently waived all penalties owned by the city of Fort Smith?

Well, what I would like you to do is come out to see us, because you are going to see something much more different than what you are proclaiming at the witness stand.

When you make the gross accusations about the spills actually polluting, let me explain something to you.

I think we made the point that, before we can actually consider that, we would actually have to look at a streamlining of the permitting process, a common-sense application there.