Well, I thank my good friend from Iowa for yielding and for his words. And I'd like to build a little bit upon what you were saying, and that is that everyone speaking in this room this evening opposes amnesty--we've already said that each…

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…

I want to thank my friends tonight that we're all sharing this hour with, and Mrs. Bachmann in particular for leading us. You know, Milton Friedman, the famous economist, said that you can have open borders if you don't have a welfare…

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.

An enemy of religious freedom who has a hotline to the Pentagon is at it again. Mikey Weinstein is still fighting to prevent our military personnel from expressing their religious beliefs. Last week, in a rant, Weinstein referred to…

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 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.

I believe the acquisition of privately held land by the Federal Government is a huge job killer.

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 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.

I want to thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for all of the great work she has done on this. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to support the rule and the underlying bill, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, that is so vital. My…

What do you get when you add the Senate's amnesty immigration bill to ObamaCare? More people losing their jobs. ObamaCare mandates that employers with 50 or more full-time employees provide government-approved health insurance or pay a…

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…

I thank the chairman for the opportunity to speak on this important issue. Mr. Chairman, let's examine what a chaplain really is. A chaplain is a person who is a minister of the faith, someone who ministers on the basis of a belief in a…

I thank the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Fortenberry) for bringing us together this evening with a number of colleagues talking about an extremely important topic today, and that is health care conscience rights. You've heard some of the…

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.

Two-thirds of the uninsured say they may not purchase insurance under ObamaCare. A new survey of the uninsured says only 19 percent will opt for coverage by January 1, meaning that only the sickest will buy insurance, driving up the cost…

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…

I thank my friend from Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule and the underlying bill. It's very interesting that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that more oil production doesn't affect the price of oil or…

This is the type of program that could be replicated in other areas of the country without increasing Federal spending.

We need to do a better job of prioritizing what funding we have now.

We need better data. I think we will all agree that good science is critical to good management decisions.

This change has highlighted the fact that data collection programs in certain regions of the country have been neglected.