John Fleming

Today the subcommittee will hear testimony on three pieces of legislation...

This committee has been pulling in its collective hair out, really, trying to get the White House and the Office of Management and Budget to put attention on the nuclear security enterprise.

I would call it shameful, but it is more terrifying than that.

I think that is extremely dangerous in the kind of world that we live in if an enemy somehow feels like maybe our capacity or our intent is not up to par.

I think that is--that very quickly tramples the First Amendment rights of our certainly our airmen

It doesn't appear, at least thus far, that the directives have addressed this at all.

The reported incidents of censoring speech and religious practice are a DOD problem, not the burden of service members to prove why they should be able to speak or honor their faith.

The intent of Congress in the FY13 and FY14 NDAA was not that religious expression through speech and practice be subject to a request for accommodation.

We definitely need to repeat this hearing and perhaps at the full committee level.

I feel very good about the fact that there has not been a single complaint or problematic complaint with proselytizing.

Nothing could be further from the truth. And we hear name-dropping of a Republican President, former President Nixon. He signed that into law.

I commend Chairman Lamborn for introducing this legislation to consolidate Federal mapping programs and streamline their administration.

The title of today's hearing is, 'EPA Versus American Mining Jobs,' and you have heard testimony that really focuses on the impact of EPA regulations.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal to forgo a full NEPA review... would not allow for proper consideration.

It is unclear why the Interior would propose a categorical exclusion for FWS's listing under the Lacey Act, based upon the premise that those listings will have no environmental impact when, by statute, all wildlife that is proposed to be…

I find it fascinating that there has not been more outrage from the environmental community, who never hesitates to demand full NEPA compliance, but is strangely quiet in this particular case.

We request that the Service immediately withdraw this ill-timed proposal

I am impressed with the fever, the energy to streamline regulations for this purpose of exclusions.

However, the case has not been made for the categorical exclusion.

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 157, after line 2, add the following new section: Sec. 10002. None of the funds made available by this…

What we are doing today is very much better than we did 30 years ago.

I will say that bad cement jobs cause communication between reservoirs that are exacerbated by fracks.

I have not heard of any deaths associated with hydraulic fracturing.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Louisiana will be postponed. Amendment No. 28 Offered by Mr. Garamendi

And again, I would just have to say, there's a dynamic to money. And yes, some of it may be paid back. But at the end of the day, if the money is not fully paid back, or paid back at the appropriate rate and the taxpayers have to make up…