Steve Pearce

I would make a short comment, Mr. Speaker, that we, in essence, have helped the message. Mr. Bin Laden and Mr. Zarqawi have been telling all of their peers that it is better to die for your beliefs, that you should go out and die for your…

the urgency and that the last speaker said that we should save our assets, keep the money in the bank. I had a friend whose father was in his 80s. His father did not spend much money. His son went to his dad one day and said, Dad, you are…

I find the arguments amazing. The Lincoln National Forest is in the Second District of New Mexico. One of the retired foresters grabbed me one day and said, You know, I used to run this 1 million acres by myself and one part-timer. Then he…

I agree also with the gentleman from New York that the Circle Line contract set to expire on March 2007 should not be extended. I look forward to working with the gentleman from New York and the chairman and ranking member of the…

Yes, I would be happy to do public hearings. Since I have been chairman, just almost a year, I suspect we have done oversights or hearings on business plans and the numbers of visitors coming into parks. We have done two field hearings. We…

The Service did indeed extend the Circle Line contract from March 31, 2004, to March 2007 due to a number of factors stemming from the events of September 11, including the fact, as my colleague knows, that the statue was closed to the…

again I express my appreciation to Mr. Udall from New Mexico for his hard work and support of this bill. Mr. Speaker, I have no additional speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time, requesting all Members to support H.R. 2720. The…

there are people that are amazed that we can make the assertion that we are going to lose an industry. They do not think it is possible. I would simply refer them to the timber industry. In the timber industry, we used to have 22 saw mills…

It is. And people a lot of times unfamiliar with it will say, well, does that not contaminate the water? Well, in southeast New Mexico, where I live, we get our water from the Ogallala aquifer that lies underneath five different States…

we had an opportunity to be in the Resources Committee when we had testimony from the union workers in the pulp wood industry and the timber industry in the Northeast. They were there saying that well-meaning individuals told them they…

There is one thing I would like to go back and touch on a bit, Madam Speaker. The gentleman pointed out adequately some of the objections to LNG, but the main objection that people unfamiliar with LNG are going to eventually raise, and I…

The thing that we do not often think about that drives this price higher is the fact that the emerging nations, China and India and the other emerging nations, are demanding tremendous high quantities of fossil fuels because that is the…

we have seen unprecedented suffering in this Nation in the last weeks. No one in this country has been able to comprehend the size and scope of the destruction. To put it into perspective, one of my colleagues pointed out that the size of…

pursuant to House Resolution 422, I move that the House do now adjourn in memory of the late Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 11 o'clock and 44 minutes p.m.), pursuant…

I thank the staff, both majority and minority; and I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank) for submitting this valuable legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on…

I would recognize the staff of both the majority and minority and also congratulate the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Baird) on not only his performance in submitting this bill but his stellar performance in the congressional baseball…

I also thank the staffs from both majority and minority to get this bill through. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr…

I address the body tonight about the future of this great country, and the previous speaker said we did just have a chance to celebrate Memorial Day. In the district that I was in, we recognized the anniversary of the D-Day landing, and we…

I rise today to salute Lowell Stout, a good friend who recently passed away in Hobbs, New Mexico. Lowell was an attorney there. He moved to the area from Oklahoma after the Dust Bowl days in the 1930s. He always called himself a proud son…

I rise in support of the Abercrombie amendment. What we are engaged in today is just trying to find commonsense suggestions to really sustain the American way of life. Affordable energy, affordable agriculture are two things that sustain…

I rise in support of S. 437. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Pombo) and the ranking member, the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Rahall), along with the subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from California…

as I contemplate the debate from last week, I realize that again the Democrat nominee for President, Mr. Kerry, continues to debate with himself. I was very amazed to learn throughout the debate that he was talking about the need for…

I will tell the Members that emotions are not the basis for raising children. They are not the basis of relationships. If emotions are the basis of relationships, if love is the question, two brothers can love each other. Would we allow…

Marriage is about children and it is about the best institution for raising children, and that is the issue. Kids are better off with a mother and father. The issue is not whether gays can be good parents or not; no one is talking about…

I thank the body for allowing us to speak tonight on this extremely important issue. The state of a society is an ongoing process. We tend to want to think that we can pass along our values and the rights and freedoms that we have in a…