Dan Benishek

I look forward to working with her and the many new and returning Members of the Subcommittee individually and collectively to improve and protect the health of our honored veterans.

I am honored to have been selected to serve as Chairman of this important Subcommittee, and I am pleased that Julia Brownley of California has been selected to serve as Ranking Member.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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 Michigan will be postponed. Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Bishop of Utah The Acting CHAIR…

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 28, strike the proviso beginning on line 20. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 23, the…

If the American people are paying for the technology, you know, shouldn't there be some sort of a limit as to, you know, what these private companies can do with the technology if it is somehow associated with a taxpayer investment?

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 15, line 16, insert ``, including health effects associated with regulatory costs'' before the…

I tend to agree with Mr. Donnelly that it just seems to be overly complex and that you should be providing these firms with some further assistance.

I believe it is in everyone's best interest to manage our public lands.

I want to associate myself with the outrage of Mr. Filner because of the fact that, you know, this bureaucracy is so difficult to get a handle on.

It sends a signal to our nation's job creators that investing in America may not be a safe bet.

This action is quite worrisome due to the precedent it sets.

I fear many of these regulations are unnecessary and will cost Northern Michiganders their jobs.

As the representative for Michigan's First District and the son of a miner, I am truly proud of the new investments being made in the area.

I would just like to have you expound a little more about that.

I just find that to be a remarkable answer.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia and the gentlemen from Louisiana and Arizona, the gentlewoman from New York, and my colleague from Maryland as well for appearing with me tonight. We've been trying to explain to the Speaker and the…

Thank you. Let me ask my colleague from Georgia if he has any other comments he'd like to make?

Thank you very much. I appreciate the gentlewoman's remarks, and thank you for taking the time to come up this evening. We're nearing the end of our hour here, and I'd like to give the other Members that are here an opportunity to speak. I…

Mr. Chairman, I thank you again for holding this hearing and ask for your support in reporting this bill favorably to the floor.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this hearing. This bill is simply a straightforward technical correction to a land patent granted to the Great Lakes Shipwrecks Historical Society, which is located in my district.

I believe the standard of science here may not be good enough.

I am concerned that we are disrupting enormous amounts of economic productivity for species we may know too little about.

Unfortunately, farmers are not the only constituents with grey wolf problems.

I routinely hold town hall meetings throughout my district, and a few months ago I was approached by one of my constituents...