Kevin Cramer

You have to show up when you are invited and at least respond to the request.

I would just love to hear more about how your union and how your membership reaches out to our minority community.

That is just not true. That is blatantly not true.

I believe that their voices would be more heard and I believe that their questions could be answered.

Consent means something completely different.

I don't think you can change in midstream.

I do want to get into this consultation process a bit.

I also wanted to then turn to a decision by DC District Court, U.S. Judge James Boasberg for the United States District of Columbia, appointed by President Barack Obama, for what it is worth.

I sited the original Keystone pipeline through North Dakota, through 600 landowners' land, nine counties, and they are very grateful, those rural counties, for that property tax relief that is offered.

In wrapping up, I thank the chairman for the time and for his leadership. Let's pass this CRA and overturn this egregious, unproductive BLM rule and return the authority where it belongs, back to the States.

North Dakota does not need the stream protection rule and neither does the Nation. By passing this resolution today disapproving the Office of Surface Mining edict, we are responding to the cries of the American people who are tired of…

Our proposed amendment would have utilized existing apprenticeship programs to urge labor unions and contractors to actively recruit and train African American men.

I am absolutely convinced that the concepts promoted in this legislation... can change a country and can change this body.

It is not just for economic benefit, not just for job creation, but to heal our land, for the benefit not just of our country but of this institution that needs help healing as well.

David and I, ever since we have been working on policy together, we have been talking to companies and labor unions and trade organizations who are very enthused about being strategic.

I wouldn't fault any of you for being curious right now about how a white Lutheran Republican from Fargo, North Dakota, gets hooked up with a black liberal Democrat from Georgia, but it has been a great pleasure, I'll tell you that.

No, Mr. Chairman. I am getting a strong sense of what it is like to be in the minority, however.

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 the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

Yesterday's speech went a long ways to reigniting the members, as well as the party faithful. Yesterday's speech was very important in making that pivot.

Reducing our ICBM alertness is reducing our readiness, and the whole point of the Defense Authorization Act is to ensure our military readiness. The ICBMs have been a very effective deterrent to enemy aggression for decades. This amendment…

There are lots of good reasons to incent contributions in charity, not the least of which is charity actually replaces the need for government services.

Let me just give an example. I mean if you were a middle-income family, you reach, as the wage earner, the age of 65, you retire, and never in your wildest dreams did you think you could make a $100,000 contribution to your alma mater, but…

This bipartisan legislation expands the charitable IRA rollover to provide middle and lower-income individuals and families more opportunities to give to a charity or a cause that they support.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to present today H.R. 5171, the Legacy IRA, introduced by Ways and Means Oversight Committee Chairman, Mr. Roskam.

The higher transportation and electricity costs will then lead to an increase in the cost of all goods and services, with the massive amount of regulations and red tape that has been proposed and finalized by this Administration--by the…