Paul Gosar

Critical programs and oversight activities addressed by the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill fall under my purview.

To end these lawsuits and to end the practice of some groups using this as a business plan, as a money maker, the subcommittee should include language aligning attorney fees and ESA lawsuits to the $120 dollar per hour cap applied to all…

Instead, let's liberate the market by removing this antitrust exemption.

The 70-year antitrust exemption for the health insurance industry has resulted in a consolidated, anticompetitive, and nontransparent scheme controlled by five mega corporations.

There is no reason in law, policy, or logic for the insurance industry to have special exemptions that are different from all other businesses in the United States.

I think that conversation should be a very innate one.

I urge the adoption of the bill. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar) that the House suspend the rules and pass the…

We are shrinking in options and opportunities going into 2017, yes.

For every person I hear that has been helped by the program, I can give you two that have been hurt.

The President's health care law is a quagmire of bureaucratic red tape, regulatory hoops, and cost-shifting tax increases

Leaking any signals intelligence can reveal our signals intelligence capabilities so that even if information collected by NSA seem innocuous.

So would you say that someone who treats information with our spies abroad exceptionally carelessly should be trusted with a security clearance?

So to some degree, protection of classified information is life or death?

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mr. Tom Price of Georgia The Acting…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end of the bill the following: (e) Special Rule for Attorney Fees in Environmental Cases.--In…

I appreciate the dialogue back and forth. Once again, let's follow the rule of law. If the agency doesn't want to have incidents like this and have their hands slapped publicly, then do their job and do it right and do it well. This is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona has 1 minute remaining.

As the designee of the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), I offer amendment No. 78. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title)…

As I have said, it is well-established legal doctrine that the Constitution and the Clean Water Act strictly limit the Federal Government's authority to usurp State water rights and compacts. I urge my colleagues to join me in protecting…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $70,000,000)''. Page 95, line 13, after the…

I would beg that the tribes become very affluent and forceful in that regard, to have transparency and have them answer directly to them.

Thanks to much-needed precipitation this year, many Californians began to see the light at the end of the drought tunnel.

What is clear is that the process is broken and that the Federal status quo is not working for species, farmers, ranchers, and communities that depend on our natural resources.