Doug Lamborn

I am surprised to be saying this, but former President Barack Obama summed up the need for this bill as well as any of us here could.

The American taxpayers and Pacific Northwest ratepayers deserve better.

While dams provide clean, renewable energy throughout the West, they also provide other important benefits to their regions, including flood control, providing irrigation for some of the most productive agricultural areas of the Nation…

Hydropower is a reliable and emissions-free source of electricity that accounts for a majority of the Nation's total renewable electricity generation.

Today, we will consider two common-sense bills aimed at improving the recovery of certain Endangered Species Act listed fish species, while providing certainty for water and power users.

The Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee meets today to hear testimony on two bills: H.R. 3144, sponsored by Mrs. McMorris Rodgers of Washington State.

Well, it sounds to me like that is an abuse of the Endangered Species Act.

The Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans will come to order.

While specifically aimed at recreational fisheries management, H.R. 2023 is largely based on the same principles as H.R. 200.

It is my hope that we can use these bills in front of us today to produce a strong, bipartisan Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization that supports jobs and our fishermen by strengthening the science, data, and process used in Federal fisheries…

H.R. 200 is composed of provisions aimed at getting better fisheries data to Federal managers so that they can make informed decisions regarding our Nation's fisheries.

It is my goal that we can work within the proposals discussed here today to produce a product that reauthorizes and makes critical reforms to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

I will conclude by saying there is one other sort of a temporary element in this whole episode. And that is when you go from Colorado into Wyoming, the mouse is no longer threatened or endangered. There is a political boundary line between…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: limitation on use of funds Sec…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: limitation on use of funds Sec…

I wish the EPA had been doing that at the Gold King Mine back in Colorado.

If people clean up abandoned mine lands voluntarily, they should not have unlimited, infinite liability.

Today, there are as many as a half-million abandoned mines across the United States.

All fishermen deserve the right to fish and that's what this bill helps give them.

Congress can and should do something about this.

We can maintain sustainability while also increasing access to our waters for all.

All fishermen deserve the right to fish, and that is what this bill helps give them.

Time and again, this Committee has heard from many commercial and recreational fishermen and the businesses that depend on them about the need for more transparent science and flexibility for regional fishery managers.

Our public lands and waters should be open to the public.

Congressman Young has been a longtime leader of Federal fisheries management issues, and we greatly benefit from having his expertise on these issues here in this Committee.