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John Fleming is a Republican politician from Louisiana who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. During his time in Congress, he represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district, where he focused on issues such as healthcare, fiscal responsibility, and veterans' affairs. Fleming, a physician by profession, has been an advocate for conservative healthcare reforms and has emphasized the importance of reducing government spending. After leaving Congress, he has remained active in political circles and has been involved in various initiatives related to healthcare and public policy.
These companies, they certainly are welcome to borrow money and invest it themselves. This puts the taxpayer on the hook, and they're not delivering on these loans. They're well behind. And eventually, the taxpayers, as in so many cases…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…
Thank you, my good friend from Minnesota. That's precisely what I'm hearing in Louisiana, north Louisiana. Again, they go, why is it so complicated, fix the border, secure the border. It's not just about the external border. Remember, 40…
On July 1, 2013 the Department of the Interior proposed a categorical exclusion for the listing of injurious wildlife by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
I believe the acquisition of privately held land by the Federal Government is a huge job killer.
I know that my colleagues here from the West and States that have large portions of their States that are owned by the Federal Government, they struggle mightily when it comes to their tax base.
It really seems to me that that's a much better way to go, a much more efficient way, a much more flexible way.
I thank the gentleman. I would now like to ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from beautiful downtown Frog Jump Tennessee, Mr. Fincher, be allowed to sit with the Committee and fully participate in the hearing.
The Obama Administration will not stop its insatiable obsession to acquire more and more private property.
I reject the argument that only the Federal Government can ensure that these lands in Tennessee or anywhere else in the United States will be protected in the future.
Just in summary, I would like to say this, Mr. Chairman. The saddest thing I could ever imagine is someone standing over a dying man or woman from combat and saying to them, there is no hope. If you die, there is no world, there is no life…
This conspiratorial stuff that we have heard for decades now about the manipulation of all oil prices... is aluminum hat stuff.
Let's be clear about the facts from the May 2013 EIA report on fossil fuels from Federal lands.
I thank the gentleman. But the Obama administration's State Department has politicized this project and stalled it in order to kowtow to the far-left environmental fringe. We need the jobs and we need the energy benefits. We need the lower…
This is the type of program that could be replicated in other areas of the country without increasing Federal spending.
This change has highlighted the fact that data collection programs in certain regions of the country have been neglected.
We need better data. I think we will all agree that good science is critical to good management decisions.
I think makes us a little worried. And I have spoken to experts in SCIFs offline about this, and they agree that anything that we do to take this from a three-legged stool to a two or a one really solves the calculations and the strategy…
To me, that is not a very good investment. On the other hand, since 1945, our strategy of peace through strength with nuclear deterrence, nuclear assurance, to me has been the best investment that we have ever had.
I just want to put an asterisk to your comment about employment. We met with Mort Zuckerman, economist and editor of U.S. News & World Report. He says that much of the ``growth'' in jobs reports that you see is actually people reentering…
It seems to me that we are starving this aspect, the science part of this, the precise part, creating overly conservative estimates.
Without high-quality fishery science, we cannot be confident that the Nation is attaining optimum yield from its fisheries.
I want to thank the gentleman from Maryland for agreeing with what is really common sense. We all, I think, want to squeeze out waste in government and certainly take away the duplication that's behind much of it. With that, I yield back…
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