John Shimkus

Let's manage our forests, let's sell some of the timber, and then let's look at shading along roads and near where residential areas are.

We need to back up as a nation and start talking about how we manage our forests.

I challenge every Member of Congress and on this committee, to go to a fire camp and visit with the people that are fighting the fires.

If we are serious about stemming the terrible growth of the forest fire season as well as these other natural disasters, we need to abandon the disaster that is the Trump administration climate policy.

How many more of these events do we need before Republicans join us in taking decisive action to combat climate change?

Promoting greater value within our healthcare system is a worthy goal and I strongly support efforts to promote value-based models within our Medicare program and throughout our healthcare system.

It is not to encourage; it is to get the job done.

The standard set forth by Congress is not being met. Rural America is being left behind.

This administration's policies have failed to deliver 'advanced telecommunications capability'--broadband--to the American people in a reasonable and timely fashion.

While I think the RFS program is inherently flawed, I do not believe waivers given out in secret without established processes is a good use of Administrator Pruitt's authority.

Most people here know that I am not really a big a big fan of the renewable fuel standard, the RFS.

Biodiesel is every bit as important to my soybean growers as ethanol is to my corn growers.

An extraordinary array of organizations, hospitals, physicians, patient advocates, and substance use treatment providers have approached this committee to clearly state that existing Federal addiction privacy law is actively interfering…

Are these new requirements advisable as a legally enforceable part of this program, filling a security gap that does not exist or are they merely an additive burden without security benefits?

In my opinion, CFATS has had four uninterrupted years to course correct and these are threshold questions that must be addressed in evaluating whether CFATS is a worthwhile investment for the United States taxpayer.

I am glad this amendment came, because our job now is to educate, not only the State of Nevada, but it is also to educate our colleagues from across the country that the science debate, the final decision needs to be through the licensing…

This is a fishbone in the throat of the European Union and the Baltic States.

I would like to thank all our witnesses today.

Based on the estimated work remaining and the timelines associated with DOE's waste management program, it seems that the best and the most expeditious disposal path available to the State of New York is to have the Senate consider the…

Without a national solution, you will be an interim site forever, right? And no one wants that.

If you don't want it there, you have to have a place to go.

We are asking these questions obviously to put in the record but also try to figure out how we move forward.

Enactment of H.R. 3053 would break the current impasse on our nation's nuclear waste management program and provide a path to complete the Yucca Mountain repository.

When Congress directed the Department to partner with the State of New York to remediate this site, Congress explicitly prohibited DOE from acquiring title to any high-level radioactive waste at the site.

Well, it seems to me that if Congress wanted the definition to be different it would have provided a separate definition for each program.