Todd Tiahrt

This bill is a good bill and it is needed to fill the gap. I have heard a lot of hate for Attorney General Gonzales and the President tonight, but legislation should not be written based on one individual or two individuals. In 1995 the…

I just think that we are seeing a bad trend here in America. The Democrat leadership is allowing this trend to continue where resources are being shifted out of the rural areas, because there are a high number of urban Members of Congress…

we have, I think, a real crisis in the rural areas, and I do not blame the Members for using every means available to them to try to solve the problems in their districts. And I know it's not your responsibility to do it, but we've come…

Mr. Chairman, I believe strongly in a balanced energy policy. We need to invest in alternative energy sources and we need to tap the resources that we have in a responsible manner. The Department of the Interior is now completing a…

I want to point out that we did a joint review process of each of these earmarks to make sure that they were within the guidelines of what we have done in past precedence in the House. This particular earmark, like the other earmarks…

I was just curious as to which line this amount was coming from and where it is going to because the amendment I have just says it decreases $1 million and it increases $1 million.

So, Mr. Chairman, as I understand this, what the gentleman from Utah is doing is his very best to represent the interests of his State. And what the gentleman from Colorado is doing was try to represent the best interests of his State. So…

I believe, in my estimation, I am waiting for confirmation from the Congressional Budget Office, that it will be out of order.

I agree that the temperature is going up. It's the cause that is a concern for me. The wording here says that we already know what the cause is and we should move forward and try to do something to stop it, and that includes some very…

I oppose this amendment. I am also a fiscal conservative, but I think this amendment is misdirected. We should not limit the funds to do proper forest management on the Tongass. Some limited road building is needed to take care of the…

there are really two ways to proliferate wolves, one is in the wild, where they respect their distance from humans, and the other is in captivity, where they have no respect for humans. The Mexican wolves have been propagated and…

The community of Treece has been trying to bring this issue to resolution for years. In fact, it was over a decade ago when it first came to my attention, and I had a staff member working on it for some time. I am pleased that the…

I rise today to honor and give recognition to the life and continued service of the honorable Wesley E. Brown, United States District Court judge for the District of Kansas. Since Judge Brown's appointment to the Federal bench by President…

I rise today to honor the Chisholm Middle School in Newton, Kansas, for a prestigious award they recently received. Chisholm Middle School was one of only 16 schools selected by the Intel Corporation and Scholastic for their Schools of…

Mr. Speaker, this supplemental funding is one of the most important bills that Congress will be considering this year, and I am very disappointed that the Democrat leadership has mandated that this bill come to the floor under a closed…

Mr. Speaker, this bill is a terrible bill. It is only allowed 4 hours of debate. We could have had more debate, but according to the Congress Daily P.M., the Speaker of the House is in New York City tonight at a fund-raiser. So we could…

Yesterday President Bush sent us his budget request for Fiscal Year 2008. This request includes his spending priorities for each federal agency. I applaud his efforts to balance the budget by the end of the decade, and to do so without…

today's Wall Street Journal ran an editorial on the benefits of trade agreements. It is clear that additional trade agreements are an essential part of our economic future if we want high-quality, high-paying jobs for ourselves and our…

The policy of Howard Dean and many of the liberals in the Democratic Party has been, let's not fight them, let's not capture them, let's not interrogate them, let's not bother them. If we leave them alone, they will leave us alone. We…

And also in that regulation, it is all based on an adversarial system between government and the private sector. One of the things that I look through is how we can improve the relationship between the Federal Government and how they do…

I want to go back to energy just a little to talk about the contrast about how the opposition the Democrat Party has made to trying to create jobs here in America. The House has passed the Energy Policy Act, H.R. 6, with 183 Democrats…

It is basically the North Slope of Alaska, which is approximately the size of California. There were also many other things in the Energy Policy Act. It included conservation, it included wind energy, wind-generated electricity, for…

And you are talking about the contrast that we have between the philosophy the Republicans have, trusting people, believing in the free market, and the philosophy that the Democrats and liberals have of telling people what to do because…

So now we are trying to expand the ones we have now and accelerate the permit process. It was opposed by 176 Democrats. They did not want to see our refineries expanded, because they knew that would reduce the price of gasoline, and they…

That is an interesting concept, because the two things that we need the most in our economy are a good education system and a good health care system, and those are the two things that the Democrats do not want to trust to the free market.