Mark Amodei

Nothing in the legislation says please ignore water issues when you are making permitting decisions.

I think there is also a requirement for you to look at the overall mission, which is bigger than the law.

I am honored to be here today to present this to you and ask for your support of the Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument Act of 2013.

It is a logical, simple act that will once and for all restore property rights to the people of Storey County as the rightful owners and end over a century and a half of confusion and frustration.

I want to stress that at all levels of their organization, BLM has not only been good to work with . . . they've been GREAT.

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.

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 these ones.

Well, you sure can, which is what you are doing right now, my dear colleague.

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.

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 want to associate myself with the remarks of my colleague from Texas.

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.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Nevada will be postponed.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 33, line 5, after the dollar amount insert the following: ``(reduced by $44,000,000)(increased by $44,000,000)''. The…

I think that's the only thing we should be doing here, is taking a critical examination of the 1986 law.

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.

I really want to applaud the people in Texas for what they have taken initiative on.

My representative, Congressman Mark Amodei, soon will introduce legislation to address this.

I hope you are really good at that because it is the only group that I have heard of that is like, we don't care how that is going, we will stick with what we are doing.

How much of them are going to seek VA care as their minimal essential coverage.

I believe that you do provide quality health care and some of the best in the world within the VA system, but I see a disincentive for the veteran coming up at the end of the year.

But it does indicate that they are winning at least 50, and that might discourage some people from at least the more frivolous lawsuits.

Well, that certainly shouldn't preclude Congress, which is the legislative-making body, from suggesting some changes to ESA to put a little bit of fairness back into it.