Rob Bishop

Would you provide a copy of the communications between DOI and EPA on this issue?

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.

Do you believe that property lines are considered artificial boundaries?

Locked up in the agencies you run is a vast amount of land with an abundant array of resources.

I am going to have to interrupt both of you here on this. Time has expired.

I could pull that up.

You are asking for an additional 15 million for NLCS. Is that directed at the office administration in Washington?

This is, of course, a challenging time for the Federal budget, just as it is for family budgets and millions of Americans.

Thank you very much.

That is smart thinking.

The NLCS, which is a redundant administrative system, was codified by legislation. In the 110th session of Congress, the House passed an amended bill which went over to the Senate and died. In the 111th session, the Senate picked up that…

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…

The map you see in front of you is not the coverage area for Verizon. Everything that is red on this map is land that is owned by the Federal Government. One in every 3 acres in America is owned by the Federal Government and as you can…

Now, we have heard a lot about this particular fund and the difficulty it has and some exaggerations as to where it actually goes, what it actually does. The problem is severalfold, one of which is that since 1994 there has been no…

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…

Last year the Senate and House Western Caucus produced a document that was entitled the War on Western Jobs, in which we discovered 10 areas in which regulations from this administration and past administrations have created specific…

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…

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…

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…

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…

What happened is, within a short period of time, using World War I as the excuse, that top rate was not at 2 percent or at 5. It was at 75 percent. Now, what we found out is the actual amount of money coming into the country was in a…

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…

I appreciate that very well, because, to be very honest, this is not an easy task which this Congress faces. We have spent probably eight or nine decades digging the hole which we are in. To think that there is a simple way of getting out…