Paul Gosar

Just so the record states, those monies for compensation for mineral royalties goes to the Land Department, which goes strictly to education. Nothing else, nothing more.

So, Professor Yonk, I am curious to hear your views on something that is really affecting my District.

More regulations, more increased costs that we cannot pass on to our customers will force us out of business.

How much has your overhead gone up in the administrative aspect in regard to rules and regulations?

So you have never signed the back end of a paycheck?

Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit for the record, testimony from a ski area in Flagstaff, AZ which I would like to highlight that talks about temporary workers.

No, sir, they do not.

It seems to me there was a lot of nebulism in this.

Do you think the government has a right to turn out the lights on a business?

But to have insider trading, having insider information, is desperately wrong.

In our world, if this was Wall Street, this is called insider trading, OK?

I know that there are 16 other tribes in this same quandary in Arizona.

We cannot bypass that just because it is a tribal entity.

But sovereignty is implied, but only moderately given, under the context of the U.S. Constitution and what we have that jurisdiction of.

The bottom line is this: if the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan succeeds, no tribal compact will be safe from such duplicity in the future.

To preserve the rule of law, Mr. Chairman, I have introduced the Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act.

There is a law, and the law was violated.

The Endangered Species Act has put a gun to the head of the West.

I have been a longstanding proponent that no form of energy should be subsidized through any federal means.

It is time to require every sector of the energy industry to raise its own capital through its own merit rather than to perpetuate the crony capitalism that is now running rampant through this government.

Drilling Equals Jobs

I have seen a group of people who have been on the government dole for the longest period of time fighting to get off it and that is Native Americans.

When did we lose honor, when did we lose ethics and when did we lose character? What I have heard today astonishes me.

It is time for some updating.

Trust is a series of promises kept, and call me a skeptic, but I see the bureaucratic mess becoming even more entangled