John Hostettler

A vote for this amendment is not a vote against volunteerism. Let me highlight what the American Heritage College Dictionary says that a volunteer is. A volunteer is a person who performs or offers to perform a service of his or her own…

Mr. Chairman, I want to start out by saying I am not opposed to logging on public lands. I am not opposed to timber salvage. I think forestry-related industries are very important to our national and local economies. But as much as I am…

But that is just the point. What can this Congress do? Well, there are things that Congress can do, and there are things explicitly placed in our Constitution that speak of those things that Congress cannot do. Specifically, the second…

there is truly historic reform in this bill. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Roberts, has succeeded in forming a system that will let the American farmer make his planting decisions based on the market and not on some convoluted formula…

I rise in support of H.R. 961, the Clean Water Act reauthorization. We have a chance, with this bill, to provide a great amount of regulatory relief to the American farmer. Farmers depend on the land to make a living, so they are last ones…

No. But we have today shot John once again in the past. I am not running in lockstep, as you all know, with this side, but what we must do is we must give the President the power, since this body has proven time and time again that it…