Steve Pearce

At what point, sir, are you going to be suspicious that the facts won't come out?

So what you have is a de facto war on the poor, and I just wonder if anybody up there is thinking about it.

my difficulty is I have to go back and explain to people who make $31,000 a year, on average, in New Mexico... why they are going to pay taxes to bail out Greece.

Inflation hurts the poor worse than anyone else, and that is our district.

But they don't buy these explanations that quantitative easing is this great miracle that I am hearing today.

The idea we could regulate every breath that people take, every step that they make, every business decision, every crunch they get into is one that is doomed to fail.

Nobody in New Mexico caused the problem on Wall Street, and yet they are getting stuck with this regulation.

Thank you for this opportunity to voice our support of HR4334, the establishment of the Organ Mountains as a National Monument.

It is imperative that any land management declaration have the backing of the local community.

In short, the bill creates a framework for responsible recreation and expanded access all at once.

the majority of citizens of our area are not in favor of such a large designation that would take away literally 25 percent of our county.

the proposal before you today has one thing that everyone agrees on, from Democrats to Republicans to wilderness groups to farmers and ranchers.

the people's voice will be lost with a simple stroke of the executive pen through the antiquities act.

Compared with other proposals that have had extensive public input, this bill fails to protect almost 90% of the lands.

Obviously, we don't agree with taking 25 percent of the county, 938 square miles and sticking it into Presidential monument area.

It protects the Organ Mountains permanently from disposal.

the people's voice will be lost and their needs swept aside with a simple stroke of the executive pen through that Antiquities Act.

The U.S. Constitution grants the power to determine land management plans to the legislative branch under Article IV.

We talk every day in this Administration about fairness to the 99 percent. But when I see the actions, I see things that look desperately like the 1 percent got much more fair treatment than the 99 percent.

They refused to make him available. He is the one who ought to be at this hearing today.

I don't want to hear that we are getting around to it, and I don't want to hear that because I have already heard that in every other answer.

I want that seething anger to continue because they are getting frustrated with agencies that are totally unresponsive.

So the big guys get protected, and the lawyers get 500 bucks an hour, and we spend about a billion bucks.

The richness of what we are doing here today is amazing. We are hearing the testimony of how the government is advising people who are broke to borrow more money.

I know you are testifying about the capital formation. But looking at investments, protecting investors, how do you differentiate between bad business plans and fraudsters?