Matt Cartwright

There are 65 million gallons of acid mine runoff every day flowing into the Lackawanna River, compared to that 3 million in the Animas River spill.

I want to take this moment to urge Congress to turn its attention to reauthorizing the AML, so we can continue the important work in reducing the impact of abandoned mines.

Now that we have established that mining companies are not contributing to cleaning up their own messes, what are the sources of funding that you have for mine cleanup?

Thank you for that, Administrator McCarthy.

While the Gold King Mine spill was damaging, this spill pales in comparison to a series of even bigger toxic spills.

I thank the Vice Chairman, Mrs. Lummis, for saying out loud that climate change is real.

Prison overcrowding presents the most significant threat to the safety and security of BOP staff and inmates.

BLM is currently working toward implementation of a rule that would modernize horribly outdated oil and gas regulations on Federal land.

If we are going to move forward with fracking as part of the solution under the all-of-the-above energy strategy, we need to make sure that the process, the entire process, is safe, from start to finish.

There are plenty of cases of oil and gas drilling contaminating water supplies.

The executive branch can only go so far legally. And the immigration system will remain broken until Congress passes a legislative solution.

I look forward to hearing how the administration is working to uphold this Nation's immigration laws.

Our immigration system was and continues to be in dire need of reform.

On the one point about 99.9 percent of crashes settling within existing insurance minimums, there we have the opponents of my amendment speaking really out of both sides of their mouth, because if they say it is so rare that a crash will…

That is correct. For that very reason, I urge everyone to support my amendment to allow the FMCSA to finish its important work of examining and developing a rule that is critical to preventing devastating trucking accidents and keeping our…

In my mind, though, there is still an important role for FOIA requests to shine a light on government actions that might not be in line with the core values that make our country great.

I find it hard to say, speaking for myself, that I understand why, after this longstanding bipartisan support for something that is a win-win for American taxpayers and American jobs, this Bank is suddenly the focus of political…

It isn't about ourselves. It is about the huge number of Americans who are in this special flight rules area.

It is about the huge number of Americans who are in this special flight rules area and the national capital region.

We think about not only ourselves, but we think about the people who come to visit us from our districts.

Representative Gerry Connolly from Virginia and I have called for an ethics complaint against J. Russell George for his handling of other matters because of his lack of non-partisanship.

That is why I supported and will continue to support comprehensive immigration reform that includes a tough but fair path to citizenship.

I think we can all agree that the cost of doing nothing is too much to bear.

I rise with some relief to note that yesterday, we did come together to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. A number of us came together and ignored the extremist shutdown crowd and did the responsible thing and funded this…

My own view is that the ACA is the law and we need to try to smooth out the rough parts on it and make it work for Americans, and to amend it where it needs to be amended and make it better.