Rob Bishop: “Oversight is the responsibility of Congress, and it is good. And when it is bipartisan it can yield good results.”

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…

Instead, we decided to move ahead with what can only be described as really good political theater.

I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…

With that mask, it is a lot easier to do that, too. I appreciate the offer to be involved in this lameduck session here today. It is one of those things that you have to take in some kind of stride. One assumes that if you are coming back…