I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I want to put a face on it. The National Association of Manufacturers says that the average business has $10,000 in regulatory compliance costs per employee. If it is a manufacturer, it is actually double, or $20,000. To put a face on it…

My amendment simply comes in and establishes a threshold by which Congress must be involved in actually approving costs that are imposed upon our constituents. Mr. Chairman, we all represent somewhere in excess of 700,000 people, and…

Once again, as the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Higgins) and I have noted, we have watched as this administration has carried out energy policies that are some of the most inexplicable, incomprehensible energy policies I have ever seen…

I appreciate the gentlewoman's comments. Unfortunately, those comments aren't really relevant to this amendment. Let's be clear on what this amendment does. It prevents agencies from imposing regulations that exceed a compliance cost of…

Since the Biden administration took office, in just the first 2 years, they implemented or imposed costs on the American public exceeding $300 billion. Mr. Chairman, when I was in school, I learned there were three branches of government…

I certainly do appreciate the gentlewoman from Maine's concerns, and I appreciate her understanding of one of the two components of what we are discussing today. The component that my friend from Maine is discussing pertains to…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end, before the short title, insert the following: rice's whale Sec. ___. None of the funds made…

This amendment is a funding restriction. Let me give you a little bit of background. What happened is the Federal Government was sued by a group of extreme environmental organizations claiming that a new species of whale was in the Gulf of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 193, after line 2, insert the following: Sec. 493. None of the funds made available by this Act may be…

I thank Chairman Fleischmann and Ranking Member Kaptur for their cooperation here. Mr. Chair, dating back to the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, there was funding that provided important advancement of projects known as the Comite project…

But I think it is important we protect habitat that is actually habitat.

The proposed legislation would appropriately limit the imposition of reflexive agency actions that are not based on the best available science.

The bill drafted by Representative Graves and considered here today would result in delaying conservation actions for the most endangered large whale in the world, Rice's whale.

I completely agree with Dr. Taylor that this species is critically endangered and merits protection.

Our stakeholders can't wait multiple years for lifelines.

The FISHES Act is a step forward in addressing regulatory hurdles by placing a 30-day decision requirement on OMB.

We have introduced H.R. 6008, which is the RICE's Act, and it pertains to the Rice's whale...

In a net-zero world, as demand for fossil fuels declines, domestic oil and gas production from lower carbon intensity fields such as those in the OCS could play a more important role in meeting that demand than they do currently.

We are failing on emissions. Let's be very clear. We are failing on the environment.

the Bonnet Carre Spillway, which is our pressure relief valve for the Mississippi River when river levels are too high, was normally opened every 10 years.

As a result of this Administration's policies, $700 per family per month is the higher cost that they are paying.

I have heard people talk about bad faith here. I have heard them make reference to this January agreement--my friends from Arizona, Virginia, and Florida. Let me be crystal clear: Not a single one of them was in the room. You know what…

We need to stand behind this majority. We need to stand behind the greatest Speaker in modern history that has delivered the best conservative wins for this country.

I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we have been here for 8 months with one of the tightest majorities in modern history. Yet, look at the accomplishments of this majority, this conservative majority, with the…