Doug Lamborn

Today we are meeting for the first of what I hope will be several hearings on mining in America.

But the other side of the coin is that private property rights must also mean that landowners should be free to sell or lease their land to whomever they wish, including the United States military.

Every private property rights advocate would agree that a landowner must be protected from unreasonable takings of their land against their will, as well as takings that do not provide just compensation.

The Federal spending projected for Fiscal Year 2009 is going to be 25 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. Right now that's over $1 trillion, and that's even before we add the possible deficit spending of a stimulus package, which could…

You are exactly right. So you are not any further ahead. In fact, you are behind, because the money has gone through the bureaucracy. It got sent back to Washington, it came back to the States. There's been overhead costs, you actually end…

It's like taking a credit card debt that you are labeling under and say how can I pay off this credit card? Oh, I know, I am going to take out a new credit card, and I will take thousands of dollars in my new line of credit and pay off…

Two things that I have heard bandied about that will probably be in the stimulus package that I think should not be, one is bailing out States. There is talk about sending a lot of money to the States for Medicaid and other expenses that…

Exactly. I know there is another representative here who can talk about H.R. 470, which is a positive approach to the stimulus, to what will kick start our economy.

However, the Democrat leadership has failed to get this bill to the President's desk despite tremendous bipartisan support. It is sad that they are choosing to abuse their leadership position by playing politics with the needs of our…

I would like to say that the parenthetical phrase ``including measures required in emergencies'' is, I believe, unacceptably vague. It should not have to be the case where a Forest supervisor has to go get attorneys and call the lawyers to…

I also wanted to say that I serve on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and we struggle over there with budget needs for our veterans, both those who are in conflict now and will soon become veterans, those going back as far as World War II…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My wife, Jeanie, is an artist. I support, she supports, the arts. I agree with what you said about the importance of arts in our culture. The only question is who should pay for it. Should the taxpayer pay for it…

Let's take NEA money that can be privately funded through the private sector and put it into the counties that are sometimes losing dollars when so much land is federally owned and let's improve the PILT program by $52 million.

Isn't it true that we had a rule that the Republicans initiated that said it took 60 percent to raise taxes, not in statute but in rules, and that that was one of the first things that went out the window when we turned control over to the…

Now, unfortunately, I think the biggest glaring problem with our national budget is we don't have such a balanced budget requirement every year, and it is so easy to go into debt. If we had strong willpower, we could hold the line, and…

This legislation, H.R. 1140, introduced by the distinguished former chairman of the Water and Power Subcommittee, Ken Calvert of California, authorizes limited Federal assistance for two water recycling projects in southern Orange County…

H.R. 30 recognizes the need to capture and treat waste runoff to meet growing water supply needs in arid Southern California. The water recycling project envisioned in this legislation will help drought-proof the region and reduce its…

This legislation will help meet the City of Oxnard, California, water supply needs through the year 2030 and will reduce the city's dependence on imported water. A provision in the bill ensures that no Federal taxpayer dollars will be used…

This well-intended legislation improves current law by directly compensating landowners whose tribal lands were flooded by the construction of the Federal Oahe Dam in South Dakota. It also releases Federal funding to the Cheyenne River…