Paul Gosar

While I believe that the employer mandate is a terrible public policy that's already hurt hundreds of thousands of Americans through fewer jobs or reduced work hours, the administration cannot just rewrite the law on the fly.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act…

I think part of that reason is there are some problems within the bureaucracy of the Forest Service.

We actually have to show the process working.

It is a model that works, right?

We have to show a demonstration project of these large-scale things to put it on the table.

No isn't an answer any more. We have to be doing something to mitigate.

We can and we must do this together.

NEPA relief. The National Environmental Policy Act has become the third rail in natural resources.

Congress must give our land management agencies the tools they need to reduce forest fires and fuels, and restore the ecological balance of our Nation's national forests and grasslands.

We are going to lose natural treasures many of us hold dear, cause a rural way of life to go extinct, and imperil more of our public safety personnel.

The Good Neighbor Authority is a tool that allows the Feds to partner with State foresters to treat our forests.

It is 10 times more expensive to suppress and recover from a fire than it is to prevent it.

We can't have this happen again.

I am saddened by the terrible amount of illegal activity on our southern border but I am down right angry that the Federal Government isn't doing its part to protect its own citizens.

Trust is a series of promises kept. Tell me why I should have to trust in the DHS?

When you come here to represent what DHS has proposed, we need to have success models and Yuma is a success model.

Trust is a series of promises kept and we don't find much of that with Homeland Security.

Border security should be a uniform policy that is all the way through.

I am not real comfortable. I am from Arizona and we have some problems there.

I think we need to have this discussion in front of the American people.

I thank the gentleman, and I yield back the balance of my time. Amendment Offered by Mr. Engel

Woman, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized for 5 minutes.

What science are you going to use? Because it seems like we are in absence, if we are looking at the E15, there is no science that really backs it.

How do you weight those comments? I am asking you because what I want to do is I want to see from the agency how you rationally start to look at those.