Scott Tipton

Unfortunately, the President was merely paying lip service to the American public.

The President's plan, unfortunately, does not represent a true all-of-the-above energy approach.

President Obama has acknowledged that some of these regulations will cost our economy over $1 billion annually.

Rather than pursuing a true all-of-the-above energy plan, this administration continues to circumvent Congress.

I have got some families that are having a tough time making ends meet right now, and they are seeing their livelihoods being threatened by some of these policies that are not being backed up by sound science.

I believe we have 11 different counties that are all trying to be able to put together a program of conservation, to be able to do the right thing.

This is an important issue for all Western States, very important, I know, for our district, in Colorado.

Would it be useful maybe for Secretary Jewell... to be able to come onsite and actually visit, and to be able to see what our Governors, our State legislatures, our local farmers and ranchers are doing?

We have had abundant testimony on this Committee that rules and regulations--and this is another one that we are talking about today--are killing jobs in America, killing job-hiring prospects in America today when we need to be able to…

We are hearing that people that live now in rural America, who earn less, are going to be paying more for what is now law that you must obey and buy insurance.

I think this speaks broadly to a bill that we passed through the House of Representatives called the Rains Act

A majority of drivers, 67 percent report decreases in pay since the rule took effect.

An all-of-the-above approach in energy, this responsibly increases production on federal lands and is needed to ensure that the prosperity of our Nation is ensured. This is exactly what H.R. 1965 will accomplish. It creates a framework to…

I appreciate the opportunity to provide testimony today on this important bill.

This legislation has truly been locally driven and has broad community support because the bill has been carefully crafted to preserve the Hermosa Creek Watershed.

This legislation has truly been locally-driven and has broad community support.

I am pleased to have worked with Senator Bennet on this bipartisan effort.

I appreciate your holding the hearing on today's bill on S. 841, the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act of 2013.

So it is time for the regulatory process to come out of the past, join us in the future, and to be able to build for a more prosperous country; is that right?

We could actually do it in a much more timely fashion just with cleaning up that regulatory process.

We have a regulatory process that was established for the 20th century, maybe earlier on in the 20th century.

Well, I would like to follow up actually on my good friend, Mr. Huffman, because in California, Colorado, we have seen explosions in growth in population.

And, Mr. Shibatani, I think I would like to maybe bring this a little bit back to my home State of Colorado.

We were pleased to work with Representative Tipton and this committee to assist with passage of H.R. 678, Mr. Tipton's small hydro bill.

Without the ability to be able to store water that falls on Colorado's slopes, the West as we know it would not exist.