Jeff Hurd

I’m confident that we’ll continue to get wins, but it requires persistence, it requires dedication, and it requires understanding the political dynamics of both the state and the federal government, and I’m committed to being even better…

As a delegation in Colorado, we’re committed to ensuring that the projects that are supposed to be funded, in whatever part of the state, are funded, and that we have the regulatory predictability, and stability that we need in order to…

I think one of the worst things that Washington does is changing the rules of the game midway in the game.

Most utilities would prefer regulatory predictability over tax incentives, and just the ability to be able to plan and to predict what’s going to happen.

The right response to reprehensible speech like this isn’t silencing: it’s more speech.

This commonsense bill allows aquaculture producers to effectively manage the overpopulation of double-crested cormorants, which threatens their way of life and harms coastal economies. I once again thank Mr. Ezell for his diligent work and…

This legislation will eliminate the City's need to reapply for a special use permit to access land within its own municipal watershed and allow local leaders to move forward with a vital expansion of its reservoir capacity, which is…

This is a big deal in my district.

I think a lot of the issues that mattered to the 3rd Congressional District when she was representing it will continue to matter to the 3rd Congressional District, and I think we’re going to fight to make sure that we advance sound…

Effective communication is at the heart of making sure that the citizens of the 3rd Congressional District know what their representative is doing on their behalf in Washington and how I will be working for them.

I think there’s an opportunity to work together as a Colorado delegation on issues that aren’t partisan, but that matter to all of us as Coloradans — first and foremost would be water and protecting that precious resource.

I think there’s definitely a role that we can have in deploying tariffs strategically to not only right trade imbalances, but also advance America’s national interest and national security priorities as well.

I think the decision makers should be here in the West where the lands are managed, and where they can be in closer contact with the people most affected by the decisions that this federal agency makes.

I make my friend, the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, whom I always take every opportunity to work with, aware that I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I thank my colleague from New York (Miss Rice), for her work on these initiatives. And I thank Chairman McCaul and the ranking member for the bipartisan way in which we focus on these important issues of homeland security. Mr. Speaker…

I would like to inform my friend from the Commonwealth that I have no further speakers and am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I know the gentleman from the Commonwealth of Virginia has a few more speakers, so I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I want to just thank a couple more people. I would like to thank my girlfriend, Lynlie Wallace, for being supportive of many of my shenanigans. She supports me in these efforts, and I am grateful for that. I would like to thank Tyler Lowe…

I would like to make the gentleman from California aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I just briefly congratulate everyone who has…