investing in our country's future should be Congress' number one priority - not corporate tax breaks, or lowering the estate tax.

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, the Los Angeles Times had an article entitled, ``Editorial: GOP Water Bill in Congress Should Be Rejected.'' It compared the two pieces of legislation, Jared Huffman's…

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding me the time and for the good work he has done on the water issues in our committee and for the rational thought he brings to the discussion. Mr. Chairman, the Endangered Species Act is not…

Mr. Chairman, 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 162, line 5, strike ``into the'' and all that follows through line 15, and insert ``for…

Mr. Chair, before I speak to my amendment, I want to acknowledge the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Napolitano) for her input on this amendment and for her long advocacy for water reuse, recycling, and conservation, and for emphasizing…

I fundamentally don't have a problem with that concept, because I believe in it.

The fact remains that you set a floor here.

I believe that the Bureau of Land Management's rule for fracking is much too weak.

The Federal Government should be raising the bar, not settling for the lowest common denominator.

Do you really care about poor people?

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2647, the so-called Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015. Before I address the many concerns with the underlying bill, I must commend my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. They have…