Richard Pombo

Opening up ANWR would give the State of Wisconsin 83 years of supply; and with that, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).

I rise just to point out that the estimated oil from ANWR would fuel the State of Connecticut for 132 years. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Nunes).

The estimated oil that would result out of ANWR would be enough to fuel the entire State of Massachusetts for 75 years. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), the man that has been entrusted to represent…

The bills that we are doing by UC right now are bills that have been before the committee for a long time. The particular bill you are objecting to is a bill that the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ortiz) has been working on for years. It is…

I pledge to the gentleman that as we move forward with a long-term solution, that the interests of all the States bordering the Gulf will be protected, and the gentleman will be part of those discussions.

I will continue to work with both of the gentlemen and the entire Florida delegation to resolve all of these problems so that we do what is in the best interest of Florida the other States and the country. I appreciate all the work that…

Mr. Speaker, this amendment would clarify that the environmental review process in H.R. 4513 would not apply to oil and gas leasing activities. This amendment would remove any confusion about what this bill does or does not do. We have…

I believe that NEPA is an extremely valuable tool for the Federal Government and for our bureaucrats out there to make sure that anything that is going forward on public lands has the minimal impact on the environment, and that is what we…

It was about 99 years ago when Teddy Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to urge Congress to create a national forest system to ensure proper stewardship of these tremendous assets that we have in our huge public lands. And by…

H.R. 1598, sponsored by the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox), authorizes Federal assistance for the design and construction of a de- salter and a regional brine line to treat brackish groundwater. The bill also provides for strategic…

H.R. 1092, sponsored by the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Gibbons), would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada. This legislation would dispose of Federal land…

I will be more than happy and willing to sit down with the different Members who have these roads in their districts, in their States, and other Members from other parts of the country to try to work out a compromise that everyone could…

The intention of myself and my committee is that this money will be going to enhancing the visitors to these recreational areas and national parks.

Mr. Miller, that the national fire plan has hundreds of millions of dollars in there. This big tree argument is nonsense. We are not going out there and saying, gosh, we have got to go to the redwoods or the sequoias and cut down all this…

Does the gentlewoman not understand that I represent more dairy farmers than she does? Does she not understand that I have more cows than she does?

So what we are talking about is the Class I milk would be the same price, whether you are in Wisconsin or Vermont?

I do not oppose in concept what the gentleman is trying to do, but I do have some concerns with some of the language that is in the bill and some of the impacts nationwide of his amendment. I would like to ask the gentleman if he would be…

I thank the gentleman, and conclude by saying that the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Callahan) and the ranking member from Indiana (Mr. Visclosky) deserve to be commended for crafting a sound bill, and I want to thank them for their tireless…

The 4,000 or 5,000 or 100,000 that the gentleman has on that sheet, none of those people are badgering for more Federal land acquisition. That is all the State side money, the $2.8 money in State side.

What this bill is all about is protecting the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the individual and that is what we are trying to do. ... The truth of the matter is, there is nothing in this bill that in any way takes over local…

I rise today to introduce into the Record a resolution that was recently introduced and passed unanimously by the Portuguese assembly dealing with the recent events in East Timor, and I would like to briefly state one part of that…

I will assure the gentleman that this is a very important issue, not only to his dairy farmers, but to mine back home, and that we will move through the hearing, the markup process, and move legislation on an expedited manner through the…

Unfortunately, I am familiar with the San Bernadino forest and I know it would be an excellent place for a recovery area, because it does need some help. But in trying to recover that particular forest, they would be limited by this…

I would answer that by saying at least we are having debate and a vote on that. The gentleman from California (Mr. Miller) has no clue, all of the policies and proposals that the Boehlert amendment would include. We cannot even debate that…