Whether we like it or not we are in a war, and we are in a war on the southern border with the cartels.

I appreciate your leadership in taking the right step in Natural Resources.

I think sometimes when FERC is slow to approve things, it is worse for the environment.

Natural gas has been the No. 1 reason the United States has reduced more greenhouse gas emissions than any other country.

FERC has been extremely slow in approving new gas and oil pipelines.

That is true. H.R. 1435 is not the only answer, but it certainly is a step in the right direction. Just keep our internal combustion engines alive and going. By the way, the cleanliness of the vehicles that we have, the internal combustion…

Only in California can something like that be brought up, but, yes, that is my understanding. That is the direction they are going.

This is a very bad situation, and it is up to us to try to do something about it.

That affects everyone else. We didn't even get into the whole topic of just the overall economic and environmental impact, and the resources necessary to build these electric cars. The resources need to be sourced in unfriendly areas…

I thank my colleague for yielding. This is an important week when it comes to the vehicles that we have and the access to those vehicles. To that end, I rise in support of an upcoming bill, H.R. 1435, Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases…

For years, States could enter into cooperative agreements with Federal land management agencies to aid in reducing the excess fuel load that makes fires in the West so damaging to people, property, and wildlife. H.R. 1450 fully extends the…

I am particularly pleased to see efforts to insert more local control.

Electric utility transformers provide a service that plays a pivotal role in the lives of Americans. Right now, there is a critical shortage of those transformers that enable America's electric grid. This shortage is keeping homes from…

I just think it is of note that we have been blessed with a resource, and we have decided ourselves to restrict the use of that blessing.

I am dismayed by the efforts that the current Administration has had on hindering domestic coal production when our energy needs are at an all-time high.

I cannot in good faith tell the residents of Idaho to trade energy reliability for energy stagnation and economic uncertainty all to meet the whims and desires of the Biden Administration's push for environmental justice.

Republicans of this Committee will not sit idly by.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce a friend and a fellow Idahoan, John Stuart.

I have to tell you, being from Idaho, I am not feeling the love here.

I wish there were more of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle here, because most of them come from states which are identified as donor states, not donee states.

the arrogance is unbelievable, especially when the majority of the Administration, I would say, probably hasn't even been there.

That is a lose-lose deal, because those in those donor states are sending that money, in large cases, to the West, where there is a lot of this public land.

We have bureaucrats in DC making decisions not on facts on the ground.

creating a category of conservation as a use makes it compete.

There is significant arrogance by making this decision and imposing it on the people who live there.