we need to be clear about the Administration's legacy on their effort to rewrite the Stream Buffer Zone Rule.

This legislation requires the Office of Surface Mining to implement the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule.

the Administration has spent nearly $9 million taxpayer dollars re-writing a rule that was never fully implemented.

to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, SMCRA, to stop the ongoing waste by the Department of the Interior of taxpayer resources

This legislation is crucial to remedying this sorry situation.

The Administration has spent nearly $9 million of taxpayer money rewriting a rule that was never fully implemented.

The choice is clear. OSM's new proposal is unnecessary, unjustified, and dangerous, and certainly does not meet any cost-benefit standard.

For these reasons, we strongly urge this Committee to pass H.R. 2824 and bring some much-needed finality to this already exhaustive rulemaking process.

I recently visited the Powder River Basin myself in the lovely State of Wyoming.

Today the Subcommittee is considering H.R. 2824, the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act.

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, I now yield 1 minute to my colleague from Kansas, Representative Jenkins.

I inquire of the balance of my time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Indiana has 2\3/4\ minutes remaining.

I thank my colleague for pointing that out. I appreciate her coming to the floor. I know we are joined in this effort by Representative Steve Daines of Montana and by Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and they wholeheartedly…

I thank the gentleman. I now yield 1 minute to my colleague from Georgia (Mr. Barrow).

Across this country tonight, 600,000 Defense Department civilian employees are struggling with a 20 percent pay cut due to civilian furloughs, and these are scheduled to go through the end of September. These are hardworking American…

I have to take issue with what was just stated as far as maintaining a credible deterrent even with massive unilateral further reductions. We've already reduced our nuclear forces under New START to 1,550 weapons, and when you reduce…

This amendment is very simple. It prohibits funds in this bill from being used to do an environmental impact study on our intercontinental ballistic missiles. You might think that an environmental impact statement, or an EIS, sounds…

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 the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

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 the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. 10002. None of the funds made…

When the draft EIS, which apparently has been repudiated now, came out, it showed a direct job loss of 7,000 jobs, and many more thousands of lost jobs indirectly, with economic harm in at least 22 States.

By not complying with the Committee's request for information and subpoenas, treating them as FOIA requests, which they are not, this is the opposite of the so-called transparency and openness goals of this Administration.

These workers are simply pleading for the Administration to stop the ongoing war on jobs and embrace a real agenda of job creation.

The people of the United States are desperate for jobs, as we now enter our 5th year of the Obama economy.

Well, I would just hate to see fudging, where you minimize the economic impact and use false assumptions in order to accomplish that.

The American people do not need more rhetoric, especially when the agencies and departments of his Administration are going forward with their war on jobs and job creators.