Cash is the currency of terrorism.

Let's step back for a minute. We have a government that is--has vowed to wipe our major ally in the Middle East--really the only one that we trust, I think--Israel, off the face of the earth.

This is a state sponsor of terrorism that received $1.7 billion of cash on a pallet in Tehran.

There are millions of Americans across our country who are frustrated that Republicans and Democrats are not working together to get things done. Well, I can tell you that is not the case, Mr. Speaker, in the great State of Maine. During…

When regulations go up, costs go up. When costs go up, choice goes down.

It is so important to make sure that we have a government that helps these institutions and not hurts them.

The amendment that I was planning to offer tonight is related to the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed rule 30e-3. If this rule, Mr. Chairman, is finalized in its current form, Wall Street mutual fund companies could take away…

Over 90 percent of the comments submitted to the SEC on this issue conclude that investors do, in fact, want to retain their paper financial reports. Mr. Chairman, I ask Chairman Crenshaw today, please, for his support to ensure that a…

I thank the chairman. Our great State of Maine has the oldest average age in the country. Like thousands of fellow Mainers, I help care for my special 86- and 88-year-old parents. Now, it is scary to realize that our vulnerable seniors…

The Berry amendment has been the law of the land in the United States for 75 years. Very simply, it requires the Pentagon to issue American-made gear and equipment to men and women in uniform for basic training. This is very important…

So, it is hard for me to understand why we are going to take land that is a working forest and cede all the rights to manage that land to the Federal Government, which does not have a very good track record of managing that land in the…

The residents of East Millinocket, Medway, and Patten have voted very strongly in opposition of Federal control of this area.

This proposal does not square with a plain reading of the Antiquities Act.

If, in fact, a Federal Government that has a $19 trillion debt and a $12 billion backlog in the National Park Service to maintain the existing parks and monuments cannot fully fund the build-out and the maintenance of this national…

I want to make sure that what is not lost in this hearing is the tremendous generosity that Ms. Quimby and her family have offered to give this land that they rightly own to the people.

I still want what the Federal Government does to be compassionate and fair to the folks here in Maine.

I will not support any proposal that threatens our outdoor way of life, or somehow, in some way, restricts our access to hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, and snowmobiling.

I cannot and will not support any proposal that threatens our good-paying, full-time forest products jobs in the state of Maine.

This is not a political issue for me. This is about our families. This is about our jobs.

I want to make sure that Congress, not the White House, hears loudly and clearly the opinions of the folks that live in the Katahdin region.

The problem was there was nobody in Utah who supported it, either the delegation, or the Governor, or the legislature, or anyone who lived in the area.

We have this mixed-up idea in the Federal Government anymore where we confuse this preservation with conservation.

I have introduced legislation such that no president, this president or any other president, is able to sidestep the legislative process, the people's representatives, and designate national monuments without the approval of the state…

The President can do what the President wants to do. He has executive authority to create a monument without the blessing of Congress.

Even though you may think you are going to have a seat at the table on how this land is managed and what is done with it in the future, reality shows that you will not.