Rob Bishop

This line of reasoning is misguided. Although couched in language intended to convey respect for the Island's residents, this argument--if allowed to prevail--would resign the people of Puerto Rico to yet another century of voicelessness.

A Representative in Congress from the State of Utah

It just seems so painfully obvious that we must have a mechanism that addresses problems that exist throughout a corporate structure.

I certainly, Mr. Chairman, respect your concerns about tax inequity.

The importance of exposing our children. We are lucky to be in a school district that my kids do have art every week.

The arts district that he has created has really revitalized that part of the town.

I want to very much associate myself with Congresswoman Slaughter's testimony, and three points in particular.

Martin Feldstein...wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post yesterday about this very subject.

But it seems President Obama wants to stop the music and send the band home.

All kids should have auditoriums in their school, so they are simply taught how to be an audience.

I recognize, clearly, that even if you are the not musically inclined, everyone should learn to play the piano.

The arts and their importance to our country and to our economy

We are going to come back and try and fix it by going after them in a punitive way.

Maybe you should consider doing it, and I will leave you with that.

Your testimony describes a situation on our public lands along the southern border. How has the inability to secure the border and the resulting impediments to scientific research damaged the protective habitat death and injury to park…

I think what you are seeing what is happening in Congress today, maybe Congress should take that advice.

There needs to be continual look both by the agencies and by the Congress those requirements, the hurtles you have to go through to make sure that there are not some opportunities to streamline them so that we can get the job done on a…

Maybe you could make a deal with the National Parks and Conservation Association to have them work on the border too.

What is being done to change those policies in the Forest Service and why simply is the Forest Service not asking for substantial funding increases for law enforcement on Forest Service lands?

So I am assuming that 80 to 20 split can also be counted with the phrase 'paralysis to analysis'

I appreciate your clarification here. I think the release was somewhat misleading.

I want more improvement for obvious reasons.

I have other questions but for now let me let my colleagues go.

Has the Department of the Interior taken any steps since the scandal came to light dealing with NLCS to ensure that Department of the Interior employees cease any kind of improper collusion with political advocacy groups or lobbying groups?

Do you believe there is a problem there with what we sometimes call 'paralysis by analysis' or what the Acting Director said is 80 percent of the time spent trying to justify the other 20 percent of the actual work?