Rob Bishop

You make me embarrassed right here. I wish I could take full credit for the time management plans that we are implementing here. I may have said it, but somebody else had to make the decision to go forward with it. I think it was the right…

If I could just add one comment to that as well. I think it is very clear that we need to say it is not that the Federal Government will always be bad and is incompetent at doing things. The problem the Federal Government has is the size…

Let me try and hit, for just one moment, two potential areas to address that particular question, and it goes back to the fact that we did read the Constitution on the floor today. You know it's amazing, as P.J. O'Rourke once said, that…

In most of the history books that I do, that I have seen, when we taught high school history, they always talk about how this nation came together with the uniting of the railroads, the UP and the Central Pacific joining together and how…

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 appreciate the gentleman from California recognizing me. Every time we talk about rules, I realize for the majority of people, their eyes kind of glaze over. But every kid who has spent time in an elementary yard realizes that the rules…

However, good procedures do create good policy. Poor procedures create what we are doing here today. As was said by the gentleman from Minnesota, had the motion to recommit, an amendment, been approved by this body, it would be attached in…

There is nothing wrong with child nutrition. There is nothing wrong with trying to provide that kids have the opportunity to be well fed so that they can function in school. There is nothing wrong with the goals or the desires of those who…

The last action that we took in this body today was a resolution honoring the Constitution, which we celebrate tomorrow. Since we are not in session tomorrow, I wish to talk for a moment about that inspired document this evening. It's…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise to support House Resolution 1571, acknowledging and congratulating Miami Dade College on the occasion of its 50th anniversary of service to the students and residents of…

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…

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

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…

Well, we'll all join in the battalion because we are all faced with the results of these decisions. Let me just check off a couple of things that have happened in the West that have destroyed jobs in the West. Obviously, in my State, the…

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 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.

It has been that way for the last 12 months. So, somewhere, somebody has to figure out what is unique about my State and about our area in the West that has given us this wonderful distinction of having the best joblessness in the Nation…

Let me throw a couple more statistics at you, and then I want to do some dialoguing here because the numbers are good, but we have to put them in context eventually. This administration is always big about saying, well, we need to have…

And I appreciate that. I think if you keep--I don't know if they can keep the cameras on that particular chart, but it is a telling chart. And it's one of the things that I think you are trying to say, that we have yet to learn lessons…

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

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…

Now one of those things listed in there in the cost of doing business is also the cost of energy that takes place. There is a bill that passed the Natural Resources Committee, it's called the CLEAR Act, which purportedly dealt with what is…

I appreciate the gentleman expressing I think the frustration that many of us in Congress are feeling in the direction in which this country is going, and that we can look at concept after concept of either outrageous spending, poor policy…

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