It is really actually very exciting. I also want to thank Congressman Hardy for sponsoring this bill to help train and educate our mining engineers and scientists of the future.

Obviously, here in Colorado, and it also applies to the Rocky Mountain West--Wyoming, Utah, Nevada--we love our outdoors.

I want to thank the committee for showcasing the Colorado School of Mines, which is one of the premiere engineering and research institutions in the world.

The fifth bill we will discuss today is one that I have introduced and that is H.R. 3798, the Due Process Restoration Act.

The cost is less due process protection for defendants who find themselves beholden to a seriously flawed system.

The solution envisioned under the Due Process Restoration Act, my bill, is a simple one: Simply allow defendants the option to have their cases moved to a district court.

In recent years the SEC has transformed itself into a veritable judge, jury, and executioner.

Are you aware of what our unemployment rate is today in Colorado? Three point eight percent.

I thank the gentlewoman from California, my ranking member. I appreciate the emotionally charged conversation that we are having here on the House floor today. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 1737. In the 14th Amendment to the…

I thank the ranking member for allowing me to speak. Mr. Speaker, in my district, which are the suburbs of Denver, 18 small companies benefit from the Export-Import Bank and the guarantees and the support that it provides--hundreds and…

In the Denver area we've had ozone issues for years and years and years, and our State prides itself on being very outdoorsy.

Each year and each time industry complains that this is going to be unattainable, we can't do it, but then over a course of time, they do.

either we raise taxes to make that investment, which, you know, will give some people, you know, heartache...

3 years ago I was here for a moment of silence on behalf of the 12 killed and the 70 injured in the Aurora movie theater. Since that time, we have had at least 55 mass shootings where four or more people were killed and we have had at…

I'd like to be able to say something in an authorizing language--ten years from now, we're going to have our astronauts on Mars...

This is not rocket science, this is political science...

I thank Ranking Member Brown for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the chairman of the committee for bringing S. 2082 to the floor for debate and hearing today. I rise today to support S. 2082, the Department of Veterans…

I really would like to see us move forward obviously with the Orion project and get humans to Mars.

I see what you all do and your research and your service to be investments in the future, and that will pay for a long time to come.

I've served on a lot of committees in the Congress, and this Committee is by far the most exciting, stimulating, energizing committee in the Congress.

That train has left the station.

I have been waiting for 4 years for the SEC to address this and they haven't.

We've got thousands of mines in Colorado, many abandoned, many properly closed with all sorts of issues, and at some point we've got to address them.

This is a responsibility that we have as a Nation.

To my friend from California, I thank Congresswoman Waters, Chairman Hensarling for allowing me to bring this forward, my friend from Missouri (Mr. Luetkemeyer), and I appreciate the remarks of the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill). So…