The Bridenstine-Rohrabacher-Posey amendment, which is supported by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, transfers $250,000 from the FAA's finance and management activities to the Office of Commercial Space Transportation. This is a small…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 13, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $250,000)''. Page 13, line 7, after the dollar amount…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 15, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $9,000,000) (increased by $9,000,00)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I would like to thank Chairman Smith for his leadership on this important amendment as well as Chairman Culberson. I thank them for working with us on this amendment. I know we have been working very hard to make sure that this is…

I thank the chairman. I look forward to working together with you and with NOAA to ensure that congressional intent is clear and to make this critically important pilot program a reality. I appreciate your leadership and assistance on this…

I thank the chairman of the Science Committee for yielding and for his strong leadership on working this bill through regular order so that all of the amendments that we have made, all the Members have had their voices heard in this bill…

we must look outside the box for new methods of providing essential weather data

I want to make sure before we close that everybody understands that this would not be possible without the Ranking Member, Ms. Bonamici from Oregon, for her hard work to make this a very bipartisan effort.

I want to thank Chairman Smith for his continued leadership on this issue.

look to augment our satellite systems through commercial means, just as the Department of Defense and NASA have done

I thank the Committee Vice Chairman, Mr. Lucas, for his sponsorship of the bill.

This bill is the result of a bipartisan agreement and is stronger for it.

I look forward to working with our Senate counterparts, and would also encourage them to take up the H.R. 1561.

the monopoly power that's of concern to me is the current government monopoly of space-based weather data.

I also want to thank the Ranking Member of the Environment Subcommittee, Ms. Bonamici, for being the lead cosponsor.

I would like to just echo the comments of my colleague from Oklahoma, the vice chairman of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Mr. Lucas, and of course the ranking member, Ms. Bonamici. I think your summation of this bill is…

I would like to take some time this morning to celebrate the life of a remarkable American, the late Smith Wildman Brookhart, III. Mr. Brookhart was born on January 22, 1935, and passed away last month. He is survived by his wife of 56…

I am deeply concerned lowering the standards at this time will have a negative impact, particularly on rural America.

Oregon welcomes EPA's proposal to lower the ozone NAAQS based on advice provided by the Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee.

A February 2015 analysis by NERA Economic Consulting finds that GDP will be reduced by $1.7 trillion between 2017 and 2040.

According to Dr. Allen Lefohn, who testified at last month's hearing, it is his expert opinion that the EPA Administrator is relying solely on one 2009 study of 31 participants in order to scientifically justify the costliest regulation in…

Now more than ever the American people need a strong EPA to protect their right to clean air and water.

The proposed changes to NAAQS for ozone are unwarranted at this time.

Supporters of the EPA's agenda will say opposition amounts to opposing clean air. This could not be farther from the truth.

If we are limited and possibly prohibited from prescribed burns in Oklahoma, I have no doubt we would experience more wildfires.