This is really a purely political decision by the President that will do more than just economic harm, but it will have a grave national security implication as well.

I disagree with that, but I can assure you I am new. This is my first term. But if that is true, then I am going to work hard to change the direction because we are spending American taxpayer dollars irresponsibly on this program.

It seems to me that giving the Chinese Government American aid at the expense of the American taxpayer to try and force compliance is an ill-advised strategy.

I hope we keep these funds on hold.

How are you going to get past all of that?

How are you going to get the Chinese to buy them when the Chinese are subsidizing the prices of those products domestically?

that they don't know. You don't know what the implications are to American companies until after you have implemented these policies.

Cap and trade by regulation. I got that part.

Why aren't we using the money that we are giving to China to help spur the U.S. economy and job growth at home, rather than investing it in China?

Today I rise to express my strong support and gratitude to America's heroes, our veterans. While our servicemembers and veterans deserve our gratitude and thanks every day, Veterans Day, which we will celebrate next Friday, serves as an…

It is amazing to me that we sit and listen to my colleague from Massachusetts talk about how dismal of a performance this contractor did, and yet he wasn't fired.

I am very concerned that we do it in a responsible way that incentivizes America's exceptionalism, not putting strangleholds.

That seems the way that your Administration, your Department wants to work. You want to do these things in the blind, keep America in the dark, and expect nobody to notice until it is too late.

You know, I don't think you guys have the memo about what your President, our President, said in his State of the Union.

Did any official at OSM or the Interior or any part of the Administration ask that contractor to change the assumptions for the economic analysis which would then lower the jobs impacts of their analysis?

I must say that I am highly disappointed with OSM and the way that they have treated the States in this rulemaking process.

He thinks OSM seems to want to complete this rulemaking process at a world record pace, which is unrealistic considering the other one took 5 years to complete.

It is going to hurt a lot of people in eastern and southeastern Ohio.

I have to tell you that this whole process is very concerning to me.

As a reasonable person, I find it incredible that the Secretary of Interior would announce earlier this year that the Final Environmental Impact Statement would have the full withdrawal area as the preferred alternative, before the final…

What better way to commemorate that than to recognize what the commander-in-chief said on that day?

How do you justify violating the 1970s law that superseded the 1950s law that said that these two agencies can't be merged?

The withdrawal is a reckless policy, and responsibility for it rests with Ranking Member Grijalva and his co-conspirators, the Department of the Interior.

It breaks my heart when I see these parts of Florida developed.

This nonsensical effort by the Obama Administration is a step in precisely the wrong direction for the American economy, making the U.S. even more dependent on foreign powers and potentially creating a serious national security threat…