Hal Rogers

Well, majority rules in this country, right?

I have got 9,000 miners in my district laid off in the last few years.

I have got able-bodied young men with families formerly making $70,000, $80,000 a year in the mining business now trying to find a job at McDonalds, unsuccessfully I might add.

It's important that we get things right here in Washington. That starts with setting the right priorities in the budget.

Each of these industries is fighting every day to manage the onslaught of federal regulations promulgated by the EPA.

The proceeds of that ought to be going back to those areas where it came from, but if it is only for reforestation, it would not provide that many jobs.

The States, as I said, are primarily responsible for most of the regulatory work, but yet OSM is asking for a $5.5 million increase for itself and cutting the States' grants by more than $3 million.

I wish we could free up that money for economic development to bring in the new jobs of this world that we live in today.

I also appreciate that the Department has finally observed this committee's strong insistence that you would refrain from cutting the Office of Surface Mining State Grant Programs.

the States have the premier authority in regulating mining operations, and yet they tell me that it is like talking to a brick wall with your Department.

So we disagree in the strongest possible terms with the agenda this administration has adopted for your regulatory programs.

The few times when OSM has asked for the States for comments on draft documents, the timeframes they are given to answer are unrealistic, some less than 5 days to respond to OSM.

World energy demand continues to rise with 90 percent of increased energy demand driven by the needs of developing countries.

Our contributions to international financial institutions must be targeted to ensure that we are promoting what Secretary Kerry called 'the best enhancement of our values and our interests.'

The EPA's regulations, which are constitutionally dubious, have brought coal mining to a screeching halt and coal-fired power plants to their knees.

I appreciate the expeditious manner in which your Department handled those issues.

I submit for publication the rules of the Committee on Appropriations for the 114th Congress, as adopted on January 28, 2015. Resolved, That the rules and practices of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, in the One…

I thank Chairman Carter for his great work in putting this bill together and for yielding the time. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this bill that funds the Department of Homeland Security. In December, the House passed, on a bipartisan…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the motion. The text of the motion is as follows: Mr. Rogers of Kentucky moves that the House concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 83 with an amendment. The…

May I inquire the time remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 12 minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from New York has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining. {time} 1315

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on the motion to concur will be followed by a 5-minute vote on the motion to suspend the…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I will not be lengthy, but I will be very serious. There are very few people that I have served with in this body these 34 years for me who has more respect and more friends than Doc Hastings. We are…

It is a sort of a mini industrial complex syndrome that has set in there. And we're going to have to guard against it every step of the way.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 319, noes 108, not voting 4, as follows: [Roll No. 509] AYES--319…

This is a clean, straightforward continuing resolution that has bipartisan and bicameral support. It is our best, most clear path forward to keep the lights on in our Federal Government before the fiscal year ends. The American people rely…