"For all these reasons I support H.R. 2015 and want to thank the subcommittee for holding this important hearing on this bill that is important to all Nevadans."
"I am honored to be here to ask you to support passage of the Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013."
"Well, you sure can, which is what you are doing right now, my dear colleague."
"This committee has historically--in the time that I have been here has the reputation for moving bills that should be moved, and that does include Nevada bills in the past, and I expect it to include ..."
"H.R. 1167 would rectify in one single act issues that have prevailed for over a century and a half."
"Congressman Amodei has developed a simplified, streamlined approach to cure this issue."
"I want to associate myself with the remarks of my colleague from Texas."
"What?"
"I mean I look at this stuff, and I am glad that, Jim, you are here on behalf of the whole Department of the Interior, because I represent a State that is north of 80 percent federally owned."
"It doesn't matter what your interior policies are if you don't have effective operational control over who crosses your border."
"The coding model... is 1940s vintage."