Jared Polis

In brief response to the gentleman from Washington, all States, certainly including the residents of Puerto Rico, if they, in fact, become a State, would have the protections of the Second Amendment, as well as all of the other amendments…

For more than 200 years, Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court have recognized certain legal rights and protections for America's indigenous people. It's the moral and legal responsibility of Congress to reaffirm a…

First of all, I take some degree of offense coming from Colorado if people were to call our wilderness area kind of denigrated as mountain-front property. It so happens that our State is a mountainous State so property happens to be…

Well, okay. At that point the Congress said, well, not one dollar of that TARP money has gone to buying bad debt. Instead, the Bush administration started nationalizing companies left and right. They bought up banks. They are now owned by…

Promoting green energy jobs and strengthening Colorado's competitiveness both in the U.S. And internationally has been a major focus of your administration.

Your appointment recognizes Colorado's major education reforms that you and Lieutenant Governor O'Brien have initiated since taking office in 2007.

I believe the bulk of evidence, scientific consensus, does show that at least a large and significant part of antibiotic resistant bacteria that affects humans does stem from overuse of antibiotics in animals.

We find, quite to the contrary, that those of us who represent--and I represent a consuming district--my consumers would be thrilled to pay a few pennies more for their food

My consumers would be thrilled to pay a few pennies more for their food knowing that it comes--and they voted with their dollars already

I think that this bill furthers that end, and that is why I am proud to be a cosponsor and also applaud Chairwoman Slaughter for holding this important hearing today.

It also detracts from the taste of the product itself, the taste and nutritional value of the product itself

The question is that you mentioned that you are worried that livestock producers will be left with few, if any, medicines to prevent and control animal disease.

There are no farmers in my family. I am not from Iowa. My family, since arriving from Eastern European shuttles around the year 1900, has been city dwellers and occasionally suburban dwellers.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I strongly support H.R. 1549, and I look forward to hearing the testimony today.

I am proud to be a cosponsor of H.R. 1549, and would like to thank Chairwoman Slaughter for bringing this important bill forward.

The real cost of that cheap pork chop is something very great indeed.

In large parts of my district in Colorado it is no longer a discussion of saving the forest. Our forest has died off.

However, the mountain pine beetle epidemic is fundamentally changing this landscape, and with it our culture and economy.

Colorado's Second District relies heavily on those visitors who come to our state to ski, camp, climb, bike and boat.

One of the primary needs in addressing this epidemic is increasing the awareness and understanding of how vast this problem is.

This hearing will help to highlight the problems that we currently face and continue to bring more minds to the table and a better Federal partnership to join those who are working constantly to promote mitigation solutions and keep our…

I worked in the forest products industry for over two decades and know that, outside of protected roadless and Wilderness areas, we need proactive forest management to restore our forests to a more healthy condition and reduce the threat…

I think all of us on this committee, regardless of ideology, wish that there was a single silver bullet...

The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination--this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.