John Fleming

I can tell you that one of the biggest complaints I get from my district... is that all of these agencies... seem not to understand the impact of regulations upon our cost...

There is absolutely no evidence to support that.

Why set about a plan that is impossible to execute when even at the end of the plan, you are no better off?

I mean, we are talking about a 1 percent chance of making that happen.

I am a logical thinker. I am a physician, a business person.

I am sorry, I am not compelled by that logic.

So just to summarize, as I am running out of time, we have a land purchase--and again, while we are offline, we are going to look at this again; but everything about this contract, and I have dealt with a lot of contracts over a lot of…

I find it very difficult that we would pay $7.5 million of taxpayer money for land, buying a campground, when we don't even know if we are going to use it.

However, we are talking about the fact that these parking lots, while they do require some measure of rebuilding at times, remodeling, and what have you, but I understand parking cost is 8 bucks an automobile.

These lands are for the enjoyment of Americans, not for some plan that says, we are going to restore it to its native state.

It seems like, again, there is this overwhelming desire to pretend that we are going to return the United States to the condition it was 300 years ago.

I mean, it is clear that the goal of the Federal Government that controls these tourist areas is, in the long term, to make sure that no one can park near where they are going to enjoy the beach.

Ms. Hanabusa from Hawaii, which is, by the way, a state, if anyone hasn't heard.

This process lacks transparency and indicates an unwillingness to work with either small businesses or the local Chincoteague community.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering management alternatives, which they believe will have a devastating economic impact on their town.

The reason they recommend no funding for the refuge revenue-sharing program is because refuges are economic engines for the local economies.

It begs the obvious question: Why don't you just give the visitors the choice?

The public must be given an opportunity to comment on the proposed draft environmental impact statement before and not after the agency implements its preference.

The Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and the 1.4 million people who visit it each year are critical to the economic vitality to the Town of Chincoteague.

I thank the gentlelady from New York, Nan Hayworth, for all of her contributions both here in Washington and certainly back home. We've saved the best for last here. We have Dr. Benishek, the gentleman from Michigan, who actually managed…

I thank the gentlelady from New York. I would now like to yield to another gentlelady, to a person with whom I've become good friends, who is also from New York State. She is a person who has a vision for America. Not only that, she is…

By Medicare Part D, you're referring to the drug program, which is the last piece that was added where there was a lot of debate about top-down, government commanded pricing or a market- based system. They ended with a market-based system…

The biggest impediment to hiring jobs and improving the economy is the fact that regulations restrict them...

Would you agree, sir, that the technical expertise with hydrofracking mainly lies with the industry itself?

This brings the President from a point which all Presidents, all the way through George Bush 43, bringing us to $10.6 trillion, increasing that national debt by 70 percent, just in one term under President Obama. I urge my colleagues to…