I think it is remarkable, if we step back in time, not long ago they were saying that we were going to run out of energy in this country, we were going to have to be importing LNG into the United States, and now we are in a position to…

I appreciate your commitment and hopefully willingness to be able to work with us.

I certainly applaud all of the efforts. We have actually talked about this for several years, the importance of this, literally for our communities.

the U.S. Forest Service, the Dolores Fire Protection District, and constituents from Dolores County to secure land for a fire station

West Fork is in a remote part of Dolores County, Colorado, surrounded by the San Juan National Forest. Emergency and fire response is a challenge in this part of the county, because the closest fire station is currently 26 miles away.

The West Fork Fire Station Act conveys approximately 3.6 acres of National Forest System land to Dolores County for the strict purpose of building and operating a fire station in the West Fork area.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing and bringing my bill, H.R. 4609, the West Fork Fire Station Act of 2017, up for consideration.

I am really grateful for that effort and proud to come from the area that we live in.

It is interesting being able to listen to this debate. The common ground is we want to be able to have consumers have access to capital, and we also want responsible lending. We now need to reset this debate to the reality that is being…

I certainly appreciate the Ranking Member pointing that out. That is actually a result of Federal policy.

H.R. 4609 introduced by Representative Tipton of Colorado authorizes a conveyance of about 3 acres of National Forest System land to Dolores County, Colorado for a fire station and related infrastructure.

I would like to commend him for traveling to Washington to testify in support of H.R. 4609.

H.R. 4609, introduced by Congressman Scott Tipton of Colorado, would authorize the U.S. Forest Service to convey approximately 3.61 acres of Forest Service land.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you convening the hearing today and bringing my bill, the West Fork Fire Station Act of 2017, up for consideration.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Zeldin), a member of the Financial Services Committee and the sponsor of the legislation.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Trott), a member of the Financial Services Committee and the sponsor of this legislation.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Poliquin), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

I thank Chairman Hensarling for his leadership on this issue as well. Mr. Speaker, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act continues to be an important resource for regulators to identify discriminatory lending activity. But the previous…

I think the legislation that we are seeing on this floor today demonstrates addressing a variety of issues, be it on our public lands, needing that to be able to be updated, private property rights to be able to update it, but probably…

I think you and Mr. Bridges have both cited in your testimony that at times the process has been hijacked, almost, by litigation coming in from activists to be able to just literally stop a project.

I thank my colleague from Arkansas, Mr. Westerman, for his hard work on the Resilient Federal Forests Act. I would like to be able to submit that if you actually care about helping our forests, if you care about our watersheds, if you care…

It is interesting, being able to hear the stories from the different states, from Nevada to Montana to Idaho and into Utah, as well, in terms of being able to come up with plans that actually work for our individual states.

Those private-public partnerships, which were developed with the local ranchers, with the local counties, with our state, were actually yielding what we wanted to be able to achieve.

I really appreciate the gentleman's efforts to be able to highlight the threat from wildfires that we are having in the West. Mr. Speaker, in recent weeks, the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have dominated our news cycles. Our…

This resolution of disapproval will repeal the CFPB's Arbitration Agreements rule, a rule that consumers are going to be able to be protected by, according to the CFPB. That is their stated mission: to protect the consumers. Let us look at…