Doug Lamborn

Lamborn, Hon. Doug, a Representative in Congress from the State of Colorado.

Mr. Lamborn. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the work that you are doing. I will make this very quick because I am not from a Gulf Coast state, and I know that they have some burning questions.

Do you believe, as you execute budget drills to implement the $489 billion in cuts that have already been sustained to the Defense Department budgets, that the country can continue to afford a robust national missile defense as well as a…

We lose control. And as we lose control, we will become out of balance and we will not have the military this Nation needs.

Are you committed to the adequate resourcing of the ground-based missile defense system in the future?

I think we are beyond the fact that the length of the shutdown and slowdown in the Gulf was both unwarranted and unnecessary.

When these problems came to the surface last year, many Americans were very concerned, and understandably so.

What we've seen from EPA, what we've seen from the other agencies within the Federal Government has been policy and it's going to trample, we think, congressional intent, whether it's under the Surface Mining Act or under the Clean Water…

Well, I find that really ironic because SMCRA is the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Surface mining control, so ostensibly, it's not supposed to dictate underground mining, if I heard you correctly?

Can a state even give an adequate response in five or ten days? I find that when I send something to a state, or even worse, maybe a Federal bureaucracy, it takes them that long to open the envelope and get it to the right desk.

We are hopeful, now that OSM has retained a new contractor and pressed the pause button on the EIS process, that it will comply with its obligations under NEPA and conduct a genuine EIS process where States are engaged in real discussions…

Some have said, and I happen to share this concern, so I could be saying this just as well as anyone else out there, that the Obama Administration seems to be waging a war on coal.

Increasing responsible access to these resources will allow us to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy.

I would like to reaffirm my belief that the United States is a nation of excellence.

I look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses.

The rewritten stream buffer zone rule will result in the direct loss of over 7,000 jobs nationwide.

The 2008 stream buffer zone rule employed science to guide public policy.

Science should be employed as a tool to guide public policy.

Drafting an organic Act is part of Congress's solemn duty to provide oversight of federal operations.

It is the intention of this Subcommittee to take full account of what we learn from our witnesses today.

This legislation has not been formally introduced.

Thank you all for your service to our country, and my question has to do with nuclear modernization.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 4, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $4,880,000)''. Page 10, line 1, after the dollar amount…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Connolly of Virginia

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 23, line 4, strike ``expended:'' and all that follows through ``6864(a)).'', and insert ``expended.''…