Paul Gosar

I mean, I am sick of this. And America should be sick of this bureaucratic nepotism, and you are the culture of the problem.

You have bred a culture at EPA that is built of fraud, denial, incompetence, and bureaucratic nepotism.

Congress is specific on this about States' rights and not stepping on them.

The American people are just fed up with this waste, and they are just feeling like we are long past the time when we need to stop trying to run the whole world and we start putting our own people in our own country first once again.

I end up voting against the second war in Iraq, and it was probably the most unpopular vote I have ever done for 3 or 4 years.

It is important for Congress and the administration to use a commonsense approach when dealing with these biofuels.

So you are an actual scientist?

The EPA and your rules and your regulations have a big impact on it, and I hope you keep that in consideration.

You know what, whatever harmonics it takes.

The best thing we can do is get out of it as quickly as possible.

When are we going to start taking the loads out of the forest so that we do not have these exorbitant catastrophic fires?

Five days of public comment for people around there is an adequate statement, right?

Three times, Representative Ann Kirkpatrick and I have sent the Park Service a bipartisan letter asking the agency to withdraw a fundamentally flawed historical place nomination for Oak Flat.

In December 2014 you stated in a poorly worded press release, 'The Oak Flat area has significant religious, cultural, historical, and archeological value.' If you never visited there, how can you make such a claim?

Your agency sent us a crap sandwich, comprised entirely of other Members' written questions to you during last year's budget hearings without your response. A third-grader could have provided this. Shame. And you wonder why we have…

I find it interesting that yesterday at 4:00 p.m. your agency sent me 143 pages of crap.

One of President Obama's signature pledges on the campaign trail was to run 'the most transparent administration in U.S. history.'

If 2016 turns dry, then we will have lost maybe the only opportunity we had to capture some of the water flowing into the Delta.

We need 30,000-50,000 acre-feet a year, just because of people moving to Southern California, because it is 75 degrees out there today.

Today's hearing is about bringing sanity back to our Federal policies that have put thousands out of work and fostering accountability to the Endangered Species Act and the bureaucracy charged with implementing it.

And that is why this House passed comprehensive West-wide drought relief legislation last year.

These Federal plans have created a situation where communities who thought they were going to get more water in an El Nino year are now faced with potentially less water than last season's dry year.

The so-called environmental community has gotten much more creative by actively litigating against dams and the Federal agencies that operate them, with the goal of making them effectively useless.

While the Central Arizona Project came after President Kennedy, it continues to bring prosperity to Arizona cities, tribal communities, and ranches almost 50 years from its inception.

May the extreme environmental groups and others that are holding back common-sense solutions... finally put the interests of small businesses, farmers, and American families ahead of the interests of a 3-inch fish.