Rob Bishop

The concept is we reinforce engineering principles and fundamentals at sites, and that is where that collaboration between government, industry, and academia will work effectively.

A lot of the needs we are going to have in future research with you will be in mine reclamation.

So, what we are talking about is we need as a government to try to increase people to go into the industry, to go into the Federal workforce, but also who can become teachers.

The Federal Government cannot handle the job. The EPA doesn't even have the mining engineering expertise to do so.

The Obama administration's credibility in managing abandoned mines is at an all-time low

Americans need to have those jobs, and we need to start training Americans to take those jobs and expand and make better an industry that still has a lot to give to this country.

We have 400,000 abandoned mines still here in the country, and it brought into question the ability of the Federal Government to adequately manage those other mines and to clean them up, whether they can handle it or not.

That is part of a larger package that we have put together that deals with the Gold King Mine in the omnibus bill that should have been prevented and could have easily been prevented.

I want to thank everyone who is here as well, especially the Colorado School of Mines for hosting this event.

I am going to insist on my point of order. This motion to recommit involves subject matter that is different from the bill. The fundamental purpose of the motion is unrelated to the bill. I insist on my point of order.

Despite the fact that our colleagues, Mr. McClintock and Don Young, were put on this watch list-- actually, for Don Young maybe it fits. Point of Order

If I could inquire of the gentlewoman from Massachusetts how many more speeches she has. There is one person coming down, but I don't know if he will make it. I think, in light of the time, I am ready to close if she is ready to close…

When you can't do a survey in 6 years, maybe somebody should insist the Federal Government's agencies do it. I reserve the balance of my time.

I have some other speakers who are on their way, so I will reserve in the hopes that I can hear some other speeches that care about people who are about to lose their homes by the actions of this government, that we actually care about…

EPA's astounding unveiling last night at 6:28 p.m. of entirely new information about the Gold King Mine disaster.

Rest assured, these tactics will not stop this particular committee--and I do consider them to be tactics.

The BOR report is factually inaccurate in parts, and sometimes downright misleading.

I appreciate Congresswoman Lummis mentioning the bills that we are moving forward that deal with the abandoned mines.

We should be talking about something of substance, like Ranking Member Grijalva's H.R. 963.

Let me be clear. The mine was not on Interior land.

We applaud Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bishop for developing the discussion draft National Park Service Centennial Act.

Please do not give me any ideas that would require an offset, because I cannot find them.

Let me say two last things. Director Jarvis, the Subcommittee Chair mentioned the issue of bottled water. Please do not overlook that.

The parks are not America's greatest idea--baseball is. The parks are just nice.

But if you allow the decision to be made in the Department of the Interior, all of a sudden you do what happens in the 2002 report: it becomes a very politicized process there.