Rob Bishop

How in the hell can you come up with those numbers?

The only reason we found out was because the documents were leaked.

The Montana Land Sovereignty Act isn't about stopping new monuments, it is simply about making sure that the American public has a voice in the process.

It is an honor to recognize you, Mr. Chairman, and your continued efforts to stand up for the needs of Utah here in the House of Representatives.

For Montana, the Antiquities Act is something like the Sword of Damocles.

What we don't need is the Administration making those decisions for us.

We should never allow the Administration to try and avoid Congress, and actually never allow them to use a legislative function to avoid Congress in the first place.

Many of them believe that it is their duty to 'protect' the land from any future development.

We don't very often get these opportunities. The kids who are at the back that you can't see because you're standing in front of them, this is the first time that we have ever had pages here not in two small groups but one summer group…

Reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert in the official Record the page summer class. I ask this body to please recognize the pages for the services they have rendered. 2011 Summer Page Class Alexa Abbott, MI, Garrett…

On rollcall No. 682, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

Is it not true that the ability to designate and study and do these inventories comes under FLPMA regulation which is not changed by this amendment?

This amendment only deals with the category that was called wild lands, which is a made up category that has nothing to do with any kind of law. Is it not true that the Secretary and the Interior Department can still do inventories on any…

I appreciate very kindly the gentleman from Virginia and his explanation of this particular provision that's in the bill. Unfortunately, it's not quite that way. Your recommendation of this is that in June the Secretary asked for our input…

I didn't want it, but thank you. Let me just simply try and come up with this one last time. The idea of inventory is covered in FLPMA; that doesn't change. The Secretarial order that established wild lands is a new policy. That has been…

I rise to support Mr. Dicks' idea but not the process he is using to get there. It is one of the amazing things as you look about the debate on this particular amendment. It's like ships passing in the night--getting close but never…

This resolution provides an open rule for the consideration of H.R. 2584. It allows any Member of the House to offer amendments which are germane and comply to the House rules. The rule allows priority recognition for the amendments that…

To the gentlelady from New York, I have a brilliant 11-minute speech welling within my bosom; but if you are willing to close, I will be willing to close as well.

May I inquire how much time actually remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Utah has 11 minutes remaining, and the gentlewoman from New York has 9 minutes remaining.

We find that this particular bill is a great illustration of one of the problems that we have here in the House of Representatives and, indeed, with government. Our land policy in the United States is one historically that had no purpose…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 363 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 363 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…

I think we've also proven in this bill that we are moving in the right direction to try to control the excesses that continuously take place here and still maintain the core responsibilities that have to be there, and we have done it in a…

I know that what we do here on the floor is often riveting drama for those who are watching on television. Let me, in some respects, not try to add to that drama and go back to facts, something we don't necessarily like around here. We've…

I am once again appreciative that data from newspaper articles were put into the Record, because the newspapers have a tendency of quoting one another and also quoting environmental groups. Unfortunately, the data still says the same thing…

As previous speakers have said, we do not have a revenue problem, and we don't have just a spending problem. We have a doing problem. The Federal Government for several decades has expanded beyond our core constitutional responsibilities…