Jeff Denham

I commend the gentlemen on this committee and my fellow colleagues on this panel for working toward real-property reform.

I actually believe that number is much, much higher.

I believe the potential to save billions of dollars is real, and our challenge is to create a system where it will happen.

We have to make sure that not only do they give up their leasing authority but that we consolidate our leasing authority between all agencies.

It was clear then, as it is now, that just having a fire sale of surplus property in a bad real-estate market is not going to generate significant savings for the taxpayer.

The goal of this is to save taxpayer dollars. We want to get rid of as much red tape as possible...

Mr. Denham's bill closely resembles the proposal put forward by the administration. And I understand he worked on these issues at the State level before coming to Congress.

On rollcall No. 615 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Miller of North Carolina The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Womack). The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote…

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. 6__. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, the underlying bill has already removed the funding for a program that is failing to show any positive results and has done more harm than good. The San Joaquin River Restoration…

It's apparent that the gentleman from Indiana has not seen the river in my area, or simply just doesn't understand its flow. But to take an endangered species from Northern California, truck it down to the Central Valley, put it into a…

With the June national unemployment rate at 9.2 percent and with consistent double-digit unemployment in my district, we must get Americans back to work. June marks 29 consecutive months in which we've had unemployment at or above 8…

You know, this could not be any more serious. It's important for us to debate what our servicemembers are doing in foreign conflicts. The War Powers Act, it is important to make sure that the President understands from Congress exactly…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. A lot is always talked about us utilizing 25 percent of the world's gas. And where we disagree is the number of 2 percent of the world's oil. It's not a disagreement. The fact is, we've got 65 percent of…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise today in support of the rule and the underlying legislation. The rule we have before us today allows for an open process and provides this body the opportunity to debate an issue of increasing…

I don't think we ought to be subsidizing any form of energy production whether it is nuclear, oil, wind or solar.

We need wind and solar. We have that in the Central Valley of California, but we also have hydro and biomass.

We will need oil and gas for decades, and one of the paragraphs it says, 'Obama also says the industry is getting big bucks and subsidies each year. Not true.'

Don't American consumers deserve accurate price signals so that they can make rational decisions about what fuels to use and what equipment to buy?

One man's subsidy is another man's tax treatment.

I would hope, and I would assume that we have the technology, since most other countries have the technology.

Even if we tapped every single resource available to us, we can't escape the fact, according to the President, we only control two percent of the world's oil.

I mean, that is the biggest issue if you are talking about burn rate. We want to be self sufficient and not in danger of world markets.

I think his chart suggests that Norway, if you believe that Norway and Mexico are larger than the United States, that would actually be a factor.

We ought to have some type of formula for understanding that.