John Scott Duarte

obviously, we can't haul anything on that in regard to ag products. We certainly need to keep priorities in line and remember that the local areas are really best suited to determine what their needs are.

This is regulation by imagination. This is the worst waste of Federal resources that I can imagine.

the most compelling reason to support H.R. 7408 is the urgency that we see every single day on the landscape.

this Cottonwood Decision has caused a state of paralysis in managing our Federal forests by requiring forest plans to go through new ESA consultations every time a new species is listed.

So, what we are mainly worried about is foreign sourcing issues that Customs and Border Patrol would have.

H.R. 7157, my Strengthen Wood Product Supply Chains Act is simply a bill that asks for some rational process by which foreign, exotic woods are regulated as they come into the United States.

Thanks to the hard work of Reps. Duarte and Costa, whose wood product industry in California has experienced many of these importation issues.

Thank you to the Secretary. I had just a month ago best-of-breed growers in my district...

So, what this bill does, it simply says notify the importer, your company, within 5 days if there is a problem with a shipment.

This isn't endangered species or an invasive species issue, or a threat to agriculture or the ecosystem in America.

a legitimate player like yourself is going to look at alerts and, hey, don't buy these things from Peru, don't buy these things from Russia.

H.R. 7157, a bipartisan bill offered by Congressman Duarte, would amend the Lacey Act to foster greater accountability, transparency, and certainty for businesses.

That goes from $500 to $1,000 a day per container, which adds up if you have multiple containers in a shipment and they are all held.

It is 2024. The Clean Water Act was put into effect in 1972 or 1974. It is about time for times to be changing, isn't it?

Is refilling the Strategic Oil Reserve, the nearly 350 million barrels that have been pulled out of it, part of your long-term plan?

We are enriching our geopolitical enemies around the world.

I mean, in a time of geopolitical conflict, in a time of logistics complications all over the Suez Canal.

I thank Congressman Calvert for this Special Order. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank, admire, and pay respect to my good friend, Speaker Kevin McCarthy. For many years I supported candidates, many of the men I admire here and many of the…

This is a boondoggle. This is a boondoggle that will cost carbon and billions of dollars, never pay for itself in fares.

You are not meeting our transportation needs. You may be meeting some vanity needs in the bay area or L.A., but you are not meeting our needs.

Not in my district. Thank you, but not in my district. My district, when it sees transportation Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act money, it sees elevated, isolated platforms up in the sky of a senseless investment.

This project, elevated over freeways, elevated over river canyons, elevated over cities, a high-speed rail engineered to soar over the top of all other infrastructure in cities, through a very low-population density area, to connect to…

Please quit funding this boondoggle.

This thing is tanking. And we just had $3.1 billion come, I think from you, Mr. Monje.

I, frankly, don't understand what the wrestling match is about. Terminate it. Kill it. Get rid of it.