Rob Bishop

I want to thank you for appearing before this committee to present your agencies' budget requests.

The Wildlands Order affecting BLM was wisely rejected, thank goodness.

Last month the House passed a continuing resolution for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 that would cut $100 billion from the President's request level.

This year the House has decided to take the budget problem seriously. We know major changes are needed, and we cannot meet the challenge with the 'business as usual' approach.

That is smart thinking.

Kids in the West, their education is underfunded, their teacher salaries are depressed, and my retirement is threatened because of this particular situation. When this changes, there will be no more need for PILT. But until that time…

I started employment with the University of Phoenix on February 14th of 2011, and none of my comments reflect their position.

Once again, in the West, thousands of jobs have been lost. Millions of dollars that should be going to schools on trust lands have been lost. Billions in capital investment have been lost because of this war on the West through regulation…

What we need to do is, I think, what this Congress is looking at, which is to try and readjust what we are doing and look at our spending levels, which is why 2008 spending will be a starting point to adjust and look at what we are doing…

It is alarming, but that is actually accurate. As we found out in that experience, the best tax is, obviously, something paid by somebody else. It was estimated when that original income tax was in place that 80 percent of it would…

And it will be interesting to see if the Illinois experience will replicate what happened in Indiana and those other States I listed, and my gut guess is it probably will not. But when we instituted income tax for the first time in this…

Sixty-seven is what I heard, and 46 percent on corporate taxes. And let's face it, corporate taxes are paid by consumers anyway. So you get hit with it coming or going. You can compare that with what other States have done, like the…

I think oftentimes we should be looking to the States as an example of what does and what does not work, and we can emulate those concepts here in Washington. You are right, as you initially said, we have a severe budget problem. There are…

Mr. Speaker, the young men and women who are standing behind the bar and at the back of our Chamber here today are great young men and women who have served us well over this past semester. We appreciate you. Both Ms. Keating and Ms…

We reached consensus. We found that making the right decisions is not necessarily a difficult process. All you need to do is throw strikes. Satchel Paige, when he was advising a young pitcher who was having a problem with his control…

I congratulate the sponsor of this piece of legislation and appreciate her bringing it forward. I urge my colleagues to support this. As someone whose alma mater will join the Pac next year, this is probably the last time I can ever…

And so far we're a half a year away from the deadline and we have yet to do anything proactive about it.

So what the gentleman is telling me is that if Congress does nothing, there will automatically be a marriage penalty increase. Child deductions will go down. There will be another death tax increase. There will be a capital gains tax…

Would the gentleman from Missouri simply restate what that first line in black actually means. Unless Congress acts, taxes will go up.

Actually some of them we did, but the one especially about renewable energy products, the 380 renewable energy products that have not been allowed to go forward, which would be another quarter of a million jobs and $500 billion in economic…

Any normal American would look at that and say something is desperately wrong with what we are doing.

With all due respect, I think my part of the Nation is taking a bigger hit in this economy, because of government decisions, than are the others. The unemployment rate in the West is actually higher than any other section in this country.

Thank you. I am actually very honored to be here with two friends who are talking about the significant problems we have in this country--simply, the lack of jobs. As we all know, government does not create jobs, but government can create…

With no budget or overall spending plan, the administration apparently wants at least another $25 billion to save the jobs of local government workers; yet at the same time, the administration's space plan would destroy 30,000 jobs, many…

I think what we've talked about tonight is an effort to try and ensure that what the Founding Fathers did when they wrote the 10th Amendment in the First Congress, when that was part of the Bill of Rights, and indeed what they did in…