As your Congressman, I am pleased to bring the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee to your auditorium.

the President's budget across the entire Administration is a roadmap to spending more, and mortgaging our children's future for further expansion of government control.

If you are unable to fix any of these issues administratively, I expect your agency's assistance in legislation that will rectify these problems in statute.

The respect I have for you, I think we have had personal conversations, I appreciate that. I just don't want anybody to misinterpret maybe my volume for my passion. It is not an insult.

I spoke the truth with passion. And when you speak the truth with passion and protecting my constituents, it is with passion.

You claimed the withdrawal that you forced upon my constituents is in the boundary waters. That is wrong.

Let's treat them like that. Let's treat them with respect. I do not see that necessarily coming from this administration.

The Endangered Species Act is half a century old. Its intended use was for listing species, conserving the species, and then returning that species back to responsible management.

To me, that is unacceptable.

Unfortunately, like any well-meaning law, it is being abused by an activist class of lawyers and others ideologically opposed to any sort of human progress.

Do you think that is good for small businesses? As a former small business owner myself I thought the regulations, any regulations that were not necessary would be detrimental to us.

I have always said you will have to watch what he does, not what he says.

As I said earlier, small businesses are the engine and the innovators in our economy and we have to treat them as such.

The Fish and Wildlife Service chose to uplist the northern long-eared bat to endangered, a misguided decision that will have lasting consequences.

That is why it is important we move these CRAs.

I am a co-sponsor of Subcommittee Chairman Bentz's CRA to return to a reasonable critical habitat definition...

When I voted for the Great American Outdoors Act in 2020, I was voting for Voyageurs to receive deferred maintenance funding.

The true goal is not species conservation in their mind. It is list the species, then stop the development, then file a lawsuit if needed, and then fundraise, rinse, and repeat.

It is imperative we pass H.J. Resolution 49 to undo this uplisting and return some sanity to the Endangered Species Act while we can.

I, too, appreciate Mr. Levin's intent, but I rise today in opposition to his amendment. Democrats tout the ``historic investments'' in our agencies by the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and other deficit-ballooning bills passed when…

That means risking $100 billion worth of investment and 150,000 potential jobs in the clean energy sector. In the Natural Resources Committee, we have a real tangible example. At our February 28 legislative hearing on my colleague Garret…

I thank Mr. Tiffany. Again, this is about modernizing our permitting process without reducing any environmental standards, as he so clearly stated. We appreciate those comments. Mr. Speaker, as you can see, my Western Caucus colleagues…

I thank Mr. Kiley for those spot-on words. He demonstrated that H.R. 1 will save the American people money so they have more money in their pockets, so they can take care of their families. He is absolutely right. Higher energy costs for…

I thank Mr. LaMalfa for his very spot-on comments, as well. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Baird).

I am the father of 6 children and Mr. Tiffany is the father of 3. Nobody controls that term ``environmentalists.'' We are all environmentalists. He is right.