This Administration's policies have rendered energy production on public lands so costly and burdensome that companies which once provided valuable jobs in the Third District of Colorado and across the West are being forced to seek out…

you probably love where you live, you like to be able to have clean air, clean water, and like to be able to turn on the lights. Can we responsibly develop these resources?

It is critical that we have an established national energy plan to meet our needs.

So would it make sense to you if we can create American jobs on American soil to be able to put Americans back to work?

I thank my colleague from Colorado for the time. Mr. Speaker, we have a very simple question before us as Americans: When we're looking at young families struggling to be able to pay bills, senior citizens on fixed incomes wondering how…

there is a quantitative difference between everybody in the country having health insurance versus quality health care.

We've all heard the statement ``a day late and a dollar short.'' Well, the President is now 2 months late with his budget and billions of dollars short. It's clear, this President wants to balance the increase of government on the backs of…

Woman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, strike lines 14 through 18, and insert the following: ``(3) The Bureau of Reclamation shall…

Woman, I offer this amendment in response to the concerns of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and at the request of the broad range of irrigation districts, water conservation and conservancy districts, and public utilities…

We've heard talk today about creating American jobs on American soil to be able to create American energy. No bill better achieves that end than H.R. 678. The Napolitano amendment, by striking the provision altogether that she is offering…

Woman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, line 4, insert ``(A)'' after ``(2)''. Page 4, lines 8 and 10, strike ``work'' and insert…

Woman, I offer this amendment to provide technical corrections and to eliminate drafting inconsistencies between this year's bill and its counterpart in the 112th Congress. This amendment reflects changes sought by the Bureau of…

I thank Chairman Bishop for yielding. When we're talking about job creation in this country, I think it's worthy to note I just traveled through the Third Congressional District of Colorado visiting with people from Pueblo to Alamosa…

I think we can all agree the status quo just doesn't work, and won't work, going forward.

The Forest Service itself has admitted and made the comment we are suffering now from 100 years of mismanagement of our forests.

I thank Chairman Hastings for yielding. Mr. Chairman, H.R. 678 is a commonsense piece of legislation to foster clean, renewable energy development, create rural jobs in America, and to do so without taxpayer cost, while returning revenues…

the beetle outbreaks do not contribute to the fire danger.

Reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman for his comments. With that, Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

I am very, very concerned that these communities that need the money...

I certainly want to applaud Chairman Hastings in regards to this bill, listening to your comments, and then just even the questions.

It is absolutely imperative that Federal forest management legislation be passed by the House of Representatives and move to the Senate.

But I do hope you recognize these are not just western issues.

This is a ludicrous situation and I am unwilling to say that we can't fix this!

Don't you have a job, though, truly, to manage the forests? If they burn, there is nothing to manage.

It is really the height of insanity that people out here have to live with their poor communities, and the risk of their town burning down.