Markwayne Mullin

I had the farmer that had moved upstream where they have denied us the ability to even fertilize their own ground.

Well, the EPA came in and they made their own reach of what the U.S. waters are.

When we have a President that openly says that he is for something and completely against something else, there is a problem with that.

The overreach now of the EPA has become so absurd that I do not think anybody in this room can deny that there is some political motivation behind this

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of legislation that aims to help out one of my local tribes, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. I was approached by Chief Lankford, and at his request, I crafted this bill to remove…

If we were treated like private land, we could get it a lot farther and a lot faster.

If the only thing you want to do is oppose, you are not helping the situation. You are hindering it.

So I don't want to hear the normal. What I want to know is how are we going to protect generational farms.

Because I can tell you I have read it and the way I read it is that every time we lose a generation and a farm changes hands--which you know farms are generational--we are going to lose farms as they happen.

You guys came in on my property and said we couldn't spread chicken litter anymore, effectively killing the chicken industry around for the small business owners.

But I am just trying to figure out why you guys feel like you have to come out with clarification when it is pretty clear itself.

I find it almost laughable when you guys are going to have these comments out, which really isn't going to have that much impact.

I think what the biggest fight is here, though, is that we see, as business owners, as farmers--as I sit in front of you, I am farming the same land that now is the fourth generation.

For Oklahoma our water navigational system is an essential part of our economy, allowing our local farmers and manufactures to ship goods all over the world. This legislation with zero earmarks takes a historical step in supporting our…

Common sense in Washington doesn't exist. I have looked for it, and I haven't found it yet.

It is absolutely ridiculous that you guys are having to be here to explain what the hindrances are to abide by a contract that you are required by law to uphold.

The biggest challenge that I have had in my personal business was having to fight the Federal Government to provide common-sense jobs.

I cannot imagine that anyone will invest the time and effort to craft a multi-State Range Wide conservation program now that they clearly see that FWS does not properly credit them by not listing the species while the conservation program…

I believe--if I'm not mistaken--that the 10th Amendment, that is what gave the States the rights, the right to understand and even have first shot at regulating their State.

In Indian country, we have learned that we can never just take something that the Federal Government says and take it as truth. We have to always verify. This is simply trying to clarify that the Federal Government has no rights to come…

And I think it is quite hypocritical that you are working outside the parameters and the hours that you are telling the truckers that they can't work.

But we are doing a one-size-fits-all approach.

We make a lot of rules here that have unintended consequences. And when we have a one-size-fit-all approach, it has unintended consequences.

Ms. Norton and I have talked about that multiple times. She drives an electric vehicle. She is a freeloader.

We need to be paying attention to where we are going 20 years from now.