Rob Bishop: “the Committee's legislation will finally take the handcuffs off the agents and allow us to simply do our jobs.”

All of those legitimate questions are not going to be addressed in this Committee hearing today.

If the gentleman has no other speakers, I yield back the balance of my time.

As now we come to some of the realities of this particular bill and the procedures. Mr. Speaker, it would be nice if we actually dealt with the good of the body and recognize that reauthorizations are important so that we can reevaluate…

I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.