Rob Bishop

The gentleman from New Jersey is right, yesterday the House did act in a bipartisan way. Now it's up to the Senate to act--amend, change, anything except just sitting there and not taking action. I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the…

The issues and accusations that were brought up by the gentleman from Florida will be something that we will address in the course of this debate, but I wish to do this in somewhat of a regular order. There are other issues, as he said…

This resolution provides a standard conference report rule and other end-of-the-year housekeeping provisions. H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, has been considered in committee. It was debated on the House floor…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 493 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 493 Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to…

I thank you for the time. Mr. Speaker, I will apologize in advance for actually talking on topic here. In 1791, the Second Session of Congress, John Page was a Congressman from Virginia, and he objected to his peers who wanted to leave and…

70 years ago the Forest Service paid the huge sum of $1 for two parcels of land, a total of 30 acres, surrounded on three sides by private property. In that intervening time period, per the Forest Service's own plans, not only have they…

Our folks who have taken an initial look at this traffic study feel it is badly inadequate.

Yes, but you are becoming a good capitalist at the same time. Thank you for having a monopoly and then charging for it.

Thank you. I appreciate that, and I appreciate all of you taking the time to come here.

Thank you, Representative Larson. John, you are welcome to stay here and answer questions at the end...

This bill is also introduced in the Senate, and this starts our public comment period on this particular bill.

It has taken four years to get Congress to agree to give them two acres to build their municipal buildings.

The proposed SkiLink does not appear to have the potential for this type of impact based on water quality records.

I am hoping you have all had a chance to see it, I am assuming that Section 3 of this Act clearly states that all environmental policies and laws will be adhered to.

This is a project that I personally like. I would like to make it work somehow if we could.

There is some power given to the Secretary of the Interior that is unprecedented and ought not to be there.

We can't have it both ways.

Unless the resources in our states are developed in the West, our kids are hurt.

I think kudos need to be given. I have seen your wilderness proposals.

My fear is...that we are on the road to a confrontation between Congress and the Forest Service.

The problem that we have is that what your goals are, which seem to be extremely rational and progressive, is not indicative of the verbiage that is in this proposed rule.

Federal regulations, particularly with regard to land use, is a topic of a great deal of debate before this Subcommittee.

When the government stops Colorado from making snow, maybe we can work out a plan to get the greatest snow on earth shipped over to you in some way and you can continue going.

Welcome to the world of regulatory takings.

I cannot understand how the Forest Service is imposing a legal obligation on itself to preserve species at risk.