Puerto Rico is an island paradise. It is a cruise ship destination. It is ideally located for both North and South Atlantic shipping.

I think the structure on that oversight board, it seems to me that it violates, indeed it renounces the most basic architecture of American constitutional government.

It seems to me that the direction we should be taking is relieving Puerto Rico of the burdens of the Jones Act.

My concern is that every lender to every state in this country is no longer going to trust the terms of their own loans.

BLM's erroneous determination will negatively impact the ability of railroads to authorize the use of their respective rights-of-way.

You shut down pumps, cost us a half-million acre-feet of water because one Delta smelt was caught in the pumps, and you don't call that Draconian?

Do you understand how that sounds to the American people, or the people in my region who have stretched every drop of water in their homes?

I would say so, too. And I think that we need to look at the policies that are in place that are causing that deterioration.

I wonder what moral authority has the government to demand Draconian conservation measures from citizens when their own government thinks nothing of squandering water on a massive scale to adjust water temperatures for the fish.

In the 1970s Congress passed laws such as NEPA and ESA that have been abused to drastically restrict our ability to manage our forests.

We just received testimony that endangered species are declining, despite all of these policies.

The same principle applies to rewriting the rules after they have been agreed to and loans have been made under those rules.