Chip Cravaack

I withdraw my reservation, and I rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 minutes.

This is basically a procedural tactic, and I am very opposed to this. I am a Federal flight deck officer. I have served as a Federal flight deck officer flying for the airlines, and if this was truly an important issue--this has been an…

I reject the message from some on this committee and these hearings as doing anything but initiating an open process and not only protecting Muslim Americans, but protecting all Americans.

I get it. But unfortunately, we are at a $1.6 trillion deficit, national debt, and $14 trillion in debt.

I am challenging the EPA to step back and reassess who their boss is. Their boss is the American people.

The American public is telling me that the EPA is overreaching. It is regulating--it is legislating by regulating.

I would contest to you that a wetland is not a navigable water. And I would also contest that you are--once again, the EPA is overreaching.

The bottom line for this is we are $14.1 trillion in debt. We are selling our children's futures away. The only reason I am standing here today as a Member of Congress is because I'm a father on a mission to restore the fiscal…