Denny Rehberg

Thank you, Mr. Issa, and I especially thank you, Dr. Paul. Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will uphold our constitutional duty and vote to pull back the secretive curtain of the Federal Reserve. The American people have a right to…

We've got to do everything we can to stop New START in its tracks. President Obama, with the support of the Senate put the United States on a dangerous path of unilateral disarmament. New START forced the United States to reduce our…

Yesterday, President Obama promised to increase taxes on our small businesses. At a time when we need to support job creation, raising taxes is the last thing we need to be doing. It makes the problem worse. A couple of weeks ago, the…

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 Virginia will be postponed. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as…

You heard it here first. My urban colleague says the Federal Government wants to control your water on private property in rural areas like Montana. The life of a Montana farmer is hard, up before the sun rises, working all day just to…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following new section: SEC. 1065A. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY…

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 Montana will be postponed. {time} 1120 Amendment No. 77 Offered by Mr. Hunter The Acting…

I will have a rider on my appropriations bill that I write for the House of Representatives that will keep you from implementing this rule.

While I am pleased by DOL's announcement yesterday that it was going to resubmit the parental exemption portion of the NPRM, other provisions of this rule will still make it difficult if not impossible for youths interested in careers in…

As the sponsor of the Keystone pipeline language, I support H.R. 3630. And, no, it doesn't put a block of coal in the socks. It puts a barrel of oil in a pipeline. In fact, it puts 150,000 barrels of oil in the pipeline daily. The American…

We have come to the final act in any Law and Order episode. We have seen the crime. We have uncovered what happened. We have got the confession. Now it is time to pass sentence.

I respectably ask the committee to consider a legislative remedy to this problem, which threatens workplace safety in our industry.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, there is no phrase that better embodies the fact that something here in Washington is broken than ``government shutdown.'' Yesterday we heard those words for the second time in a year, and that tells…

My commonsense bill simply establishes the same requirement of congressional approval for new national monuments in Montana. With your support in this committee we can restore the Antiquities Act to its intended purpose. More importantly…

I didn't introduce the Montana Land Sovereignty Act to undermine the intent of the Antiquities Act. On the contrary, my legislation restores this valuable law to its original intention; that is, history, on the preservation of American…

First of all, Madam Chairman, thank you for the fine work on this piece of legislation, something that's truly overdue. Mr. Speaker, the difficulty we had was a number of years ago, a piece of legislation went through this Congress with…

First, we need to share our knowledge in regards to the ExxonMobil spill so that we can determine what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

We must demand a third option, a way to utilize our natural resources while doing everything we can to protect the environment.

Second, if Congress moves forward with authorization of the Pipeline Infrastructure and Community Protection Act of 2011, I want to be absolutely certain that we are doing everything that we can to prevent future environmental, health…

We don't need Federal bureaucrats telling us how to manage our land and wildlife.

Exxon stepped forward and said, 'We are responsible.'

This amendment directs $2.2 million of the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research Development budget to the Risk Based Data Management System. The Risk Based Data Management System is a State governmental agency- based information…

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 24, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $2,200,000) (increased by $2,200,000)''. The…

If the gentleman will allow me to reclaim the gentleman's time, no, no, this was----