Pete Stauber: “My bill, the Agency Accountability Act, changes the game.”

Mr. Speaker, I am so proud for this body to pass this. As my colleague, Mr. Sherman, said, it is also coming from the Senate. It came from the Senate. The fact of the matter is, as Chairman Williams says, it was more than a hockey game. It…

This legislation is straightforward. It builds on the proven success of the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico by finally extending this important program to Utah. Establishing a SWERI in Utah…

The House of Representatives passed this bill unanimously last September, but the Senate, unfortunately, never took it up. It is my hope that after this House passes the bill today, the Senate will quickly take it up and send this good…

I send to the desk a privileged concurrent resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the concurrent resolution as follows: H. Con. Res. 11 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the…