Russ Fulcher

In a day heavy in verbal debate, I choose to use my time to enumerate in detail every high crime and misdemeanor committed by the President of the United States. I will do so now. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. DeGette). The time of the…

If you are from a Western state and you are a long ways away from Washington, DC, and you have a tremendous amount of Federal resources that you are dependent upon, what you want to do is you want to localize that to some extent.

I think the perception is generally good, where the rubber meets the road.

Disagreement is not discrimination.

Honestly, that makes sense to me because that is kind of what we see in my home State of Idaho.

More than 20 percent are on some kind of public assistance.

Usually it is easy to identify the endgame for bad policy. Those who want open borders are looking for more votes. Those who support things like the Green New Deal want to eliminate fossil fuels and American energy strength along with it…

Stakeholders in my state tell me that that is one of the No. 1 obstacles to making progress in how lands are managed.

Most Americans watching these proceedings right now are watching them on C-SPAN. C-SPAN is a public service funded by the cable industry which receives no taxpayer dollars. Every year C-SPAN holds a documentary contest for middle and high…

We have got about two-thirds of our land mass which is federally owned, which takes those resources out.

I represent the State of Idaho, and the culture there is a little bit different than other parts of the country.

I think the data in our home State would validate that.

I was just going to raise a topic that I have not heard much about, and just going through your testimony I have not seen...

I represent a region in the state of Idaho, also a landlocked state, and will just tell you right up front, my level of expertise on the right whale is quite negligible.

I respectfully disagree with those who are saying throw money in now and do structural reforms later.

Thank you, Madame Chair.

I would just encourage you during fire season, when we are pumping tons of carbon into the air...

The problem is that our landlord is about $22 trillion in debt, and they don't have the ability to manage what is theirs, so they don't.

Part of the calculus, part of the result, part of the impact of implementing this would be that we are knowingly redistributing that revenue from one party to another.

If we take that minimum wage to $15 in our State, where does that money come from?