Steve Pearce

I am confident that the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument will not impede law enforcement and border security operations.

We have been the recipient of so much bad public policy based on bad information and misplaced fears.

I fear that what we have seen on the border in Arizona will happen in New Mexico.

But the two Senators went around the Organ Mountains bill and straight to the President to overrule the will of the people by deception to create the monument.

We must do more to secure our borders, including developing measurements for how the border security is progressing.

Is there anyone here who wouldn't agree that taking a paycheck from an environmental group with an agenda is a conflict of interest?

The Senators never took me up on that offer. In fact, they've never stepped foot in my office to discuss with me the mounting threats to public safety that this designation will create.

I can tell you this. I don't believe that the smugglers and the cartel will necessarily protect those areas. They haven't.

The system as it stands is just not working.

Congressman Steve Pearce introduced legislation to protect the Organ Mountains...but the two Senators went around the Organ Mountains Bill and straight to the President to over-rule the will of the people by deception to create the…

The issue of security along the border that arises from restrictive land management policies is one that is often overlooked here in Washington.

The safety of these people visiting our treasured landscapes is a paramount issue for the Federal Government to manage and take seriously.

Thank you, Chairman Duncan and Ranking Member Barber, for the invitation here to discuss the very real National security threats that can arise from the restrictive land management policies.

How can anyone argue that one ranger can properly protect a monument of this size?

I will fight tooth and nail to make sure you get what you need, because border security is very important to me.

This ridiculous proposition that we are somehow going to take this land away from Border Patrol access and give it to cartel access is just completely false and ridiculous.

Believe me, I really do think somebody should be talking to the Federal Reserve because they are printing money and driving interest rates down, which hurts the poor, and it hurts the seniors.

Mr. Chairman, thank you, but it looks like we are going to protect consumers from everybody but the government.

We extend a sincere thank you and congratulations for the designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument on public lands in New Mexico.

I suspect I will not get a round of approval to vote from people who make $31,000 a year average income in my district to bail out countries--Greece--they refused to pay the tax.

I am just telling you that the idea that I am going to go back and explain to constituents why I would vote for something like that is probably not going to happen.

The Federal Reserve is subsidizing Wall Street, because zero interest rates are a boon to the big bankers.

And to hear you describe that as not significant, I would like you to use that terminology in front of the hostile people that I get to face at our town halls.

I see what the Federal Reserve is doing is waging a war on the poor with this elasticity.

You are asking us to believe that you have an infinite number of IRS agents, conducting an infinite number of audits, and they all just happen to be conservatives.