John Chenoweth: “Reclaiming my time, it would impact all of the public lands on one-third of the Western continent.”

I rise in great support of the Istook amendment. The tendency in these days is to interfere with that very precious relationship between parents and children... fully 66 percent of those polled said that they believed that parental…

Lastly, Mr. Speaker, in solving this problem between churches and the bankruptcy courts, we are not intending the Federal Government to be involved in any way in overriding scripture or taking away the autonomy and the free exercise of…

With the passage of H.R. 2604, there is no opportunity to have the Federal Government define tithes or to place a floor or a limit on the amount of tithes that a parishioner can give to his or her church.

In the West, in the areas where it will affect people, human beings, the consensus is very strongly against this roadless policy, very, very strongly against it.