Rob Bishop

Did you tell me the form the clearance has to have? In what form must it be? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has advised only that appropriate clearance must be provided. It has not been so provided, and so the Chair cannot entertain…

Is the Speaker telling me that if the Republicans have cleared this bill and are in favor of it, it has to have a written clearance from the Democrat side more than simply verbal commitment to the Tribes? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair…

Does that clearance have to be in the form of a written statement to the Chair? The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, that request cannot be entertained absent the appropriate clearance, which has not been received by…

One final parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.

Since the minority leader is supportive, or I wouldn't be here, and I am the ranking member and I am supportive of it, and the Navajo Nation has been told. The chairman of the committee is in support of it, does that not constitute the…

The Dingell Act, 2 years ago, was bipartisan. If this were bipartisan, we would not be here. But to illustrate that, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar).

May I inquire how much time I actually have left here. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

We have talked about several of the problems with this particular bill. With this particular bill, we have talked about how the poor reckoning of its sources there do not say what is going to happen if this money does not develop. I think…

PREPA needs to continue to pursue conversion of their power generation assets off of burning inefficient Venezuelan bunker fuel and onto clean and efficient liquified natural gas.

Let's get a couple of things very clear. First of all, this is not about the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We reauthorized permanently the Land and Water Conservation Fund in the last Congress, and in doing that, in a House Republican…

I am hopeful that more substantial progress to strengthen the power grid is forthcoming in the near future.

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

This hearing, as far as understanding truth of what went on, and coming up with a good history, is going to be invalid.

I know that when Democrats were in the Minority, they used to object to some of the titles which we had on our hearings.

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

Submissions for the Record by Rep. Bishop

This is a problem that has been vexing representatives from our territory of Guam for many years now. I appreciate the gentleman from Guam, who has adequately explained what he is attempting to do and what this bill actually does. I…

I suppose it was an effort to make sure that everyone was able to watch last night, and the latest version of the Democratic demolition derby.

If this leadership could actually get the damn elevators to run on time and not in a pack in this building, it would be a whole lot easier for all of us.

I appreciate having the ability to speak after Mr. Grijalva, my good friend from Arizona, so I can bring some balance to the rhetoric that we are doing because somebody has to realize that the ideas of conservation, recreation, and…

You are not going to bomb more area, but you just need more space to get the work done.

So, using Amodei's words, like, you are not going to really bomb other areas.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 689. ____________________

Even though it has been said, you have already read it in some reports from the chairs of the committee of jurisdiction as well as the committee that could have sequential referral of this, that they approve adding some of the amendments…

This is one of those elements which, once again, the gentlewoman raises an issue that I think is right, it is good, and it is appropriate; and the idea that we should make sure these considerations take effect is an appropriate thing. The…