I think a lot of the folks up here have been asking you what you do differently when you cross over that bright line.

the flexibility in the ESA should be celebrated, not undermined with legislation.

I haven't heard, wait, wait, wait. You are drifting. You are avoiding my question.

So, I just have to wonder why my friends across the aisle are proposing legislation that makes it easier for bad actors to do these things, and to make it harder for American companies who are playing by the rules and trying to be careful…

It has been said that Secretary Mayorkas is dishonest, duplicitous, and derelict in his duties, and I agree. However, he has also willfully refused to comply with and enforce our Nation's immigration laws and explicitly instructed his…

I thank Congressman LaMalfa for allowing me time to address this important issue. The destruction of the Klamath Dam is a classic case of misdiagnosing the problem and then applying the wrong remedy. Destroying the dams on the Klamath will…

Contrary to the Democrats' talking points, this bill is necessary not only to protect Americans from fraud but also to hold aliens accountable for their criminal acts. This bill makes America safer. I urge my colleagues to support it. Mr…

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The gentlewoman from Washington suggests that we have not, as Republicans, focused on a real solution, and I would draw her attention to H.R. 2. Any one of the solutions that people come up with is going to be dependent upon our having…

Democrats today seem to be more concerned with the due process rights of illegal aliens than with the fact that those illegal aliens may be victimizing hardworking Americans. However, the Democrats' concerns are invalid. For 80 years, the…

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It seems to me that the Democrats want to leave the border open and then facilitate the illegal presence of those in the United States. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I would also ask unanimous consent to enter into the hearing record a letter to the Subcommittee from the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in support of H.R. 897 and H.R. 3925.

To gut an economy, Mr. Chairman, to gut an economy with no assurance of success is just a really bad bet for the taxpayers, and for the ratepayers, and for people.

This established CRSO ROD is the blueprint we should be following, not a half-baked proposal developed in secret...

But my real question to you, Mr. Simms, is who pays?

Social cost of carbon considerations completely ignores the fact that when we are not producing the energy in the United States, we are getting it from sources that have higher carbon intensity.

The greatest reduction in emissions have already been banked. The strategies that you are talking about are dream world.

As Chairman Conrad Burns said years ago regarding a somewhat similar situation, this dam case is back.

The science robustly supports dam removal on the Snake River.

It is kind of a means of imposing an obligation upon the people of the Northwest to pay millions, if not billions.

It was a process in which it was run from the Northwest for the Northwest, and citizens had opportunities to turn out in community meetings.

So, if the greatest threat to the planet is climate change, and the greatest success in world history is the United States' transition to natural gas, how can those two things co-exist?