Markwayne Mullin

For you to make suggestions is saying that every party that graduates from a college with a business degree is going to be successful in business.

I almost crack up all the time when I hear agencies saying we had a comment period, a comment period, a comment period.

I introduced a bill, H.R. 1097, that would ensure the on-duty times not included on--not include waiting times and natural gas and oil sites for operators of commercial vehicles transporting supplies and equipment.

There is a fine line between a 7 percent profit margin and being able to reinvest in your company, and 6 percent profit margin when you just try to maintain your equipment.

I have said this over and over again that our biggest threat anymore to our companies are Federal Government trying to comply and still be profitable.

One size doesn't fit all. If we can allow the States to sit back and do their job--now, if the States aren't taking care of it, fine.

I find it pretty interesting that the gentleman who is thinking out of the box gets hit on the most.

Something needs to be checked in on this panel. I really hope this doesn't have to do with an agenda.

It is absurd to me that the EPA is going to start coming on our land trying to tell us how to take care of stuff we have been doing for years.

I think you will find out that in T&I we have an interest, and we can usually agree that we truly want to get the problems fixed.

The infrastructure is the backbone of our economy.

For politicians to think that we are going to fix the infrastructure is an absolute joke.

The frustration, the lack of common sense that we see that comes out of this place all the time is literally what drove me here.

We are very concerned that these kinds of cutbacks hurt the tributary systems.

It seems like the Government is our own worst enemy.

If you can't manage it, then give it back to the States.

My frustration comes in from the fact that there is no common sense that goes into the U.S. Forest Service.

Because of the lack of management that the U.S. Forest Service has done with the forests surrounding these communities because of their bad decisions, now they are continuing to hold our schools hostage.

In these hard economic times, it seems as though--that the U.S. Forest Service has completely thrown that out the window.

And instead, what they continue to do is hold our forests hostage.

If I am understanding it correctly, the U.S. Forest Service was designed to protect our forests for the next generation and preserve it for our kids to enjoy.

My vote on rollcall 86 did not reflect the way I intended to vote. I wished to vote ``aye.'' personal explanation

Why are we putting more and more on their backs when they have been doing a pretty good job so far taking care of themselves?

And now all of a sudden we have got to have someone else tell us how to take care of things.

The difference between your dollars and our dollars is your dollars are given to you by our tax dollars.