Rob Bishop

Madam Speaker, many of us grew up listening to vinyl records played on phonographs, something that my kids have probably never heard, let alone seen. But for its day, the phonograph was an amazing device. It gave beautiful music, or maybe…

this Frankenstein bill that we have before us has a whole lot of good stuff in it. It also has a whole lot of bad stuff in there, things that could be cataclysmic consequences to this particular country. One of the things that is so sad is…

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 3490 takes 66 acres of Federal land into trust for the tribe's existing reservation for nongaming purposes. In addition, it deems three tracts of adjacent land part of the tribe's reservation in the Sierra Nevada. The…

Now there is one other part that should have been part of this discussion and was not allowed by my friends on the Rules Committee. It was briefly addressed by the gentleman from Florida, but he missed the point, I think, that the…

to be honest, I will be voting in favor of this particular amendment. I think this is actually a very good amendment. This is the issue we presented in committee that was rejected in committee. I am glad that someone somewhere, between the…

I appreciate Mr. Grijalva actually taking the lead on this issue. In fact, Republicans had two amendments that were introduced to the Rules Committee that dealt with this same specific issue. Again, in a spirit of bipartisanship, the two…

Mr. Speaker, when I was a young State legislator in my second term, actually I was still in my twenties, so you know that was a long, long time ago, someone once came to me with an idea of doing some PR by doing what everyone wants to do…

You know, there was a time when Pete Rose was trying out to make a baseball team, and the scouting report said that ``Rose can't make a double play, he can't throw, he can't hit left-handed and he can't run.'' The first time Fred Astaire…

Mr. Chairman, we have heard several things about this particular piece of legislation. This new entity, the National Land Conservation System, not to be confused with the National League Championship Series, which is a much better concept…

one of the problems is simply the concept of some vague elements of what ``values'' may or may not be, especially as it applies to Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands. The language in question that I ask to be removed from…

I don't really think that is accurate because there is no purpose. If there was a purpose, it would have been written down as to what the purpose is. This simply says there will be values; and there is no definition of what those values…

I can be painfully brief on this amendment. In two places in this bill you have the same problem we have been talking over and over about, about the vague notion of simply ``values.'' The last amendment took the very superfluous language…

this amendment deals with one of the other issues that we are talking about as far as potential development of energy on these lands that are currently under the control of the Bureau of Land Management and may or may not actually change…

the language that is put in here is part of the BLM mandate. They are to conserve, protect, restore cultural, ecological and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations. The issue at hand, though, is that this is…

The amendment offered by Mr. Pearce is critical to protecting ranchers who produce our food from the negative consequences of this bill. Without the Pearce language, ranchers would be left to the whims of future Secretaries of Interior…

I rise in support of H.R. 2675, and we are pleased to support this legislation that will help the young men of Oklahoma by allowing the Boy Scouts of America to expand their summer camp within the forest to accommodate the fast-growing…

H.R. 3651, the Utah National Guard Readiness Act, was cosponsored by the entire Utah delegation. There are only three of us, but we all agreed. So Mr. Matheson, Mr. Cannon, and I are sponsoring this bill, as requested by the Adjutant…

Madam Speaker, there are currently many Federal and State agencies, universities and private entities collecting ocean and coastal observation data. H.R. 2342 will coordinate these efforts and create a national integrated coastal and ocean…

Public Law 108-191 made it illegal to buy, sell, or trade certain large exotic cats in interstate or foreign commerce. These include cheetahs, cougars, jaguars, leopards, lions, tigers, and bears, oh my. The measure did not ban the private…

I rise in support of H.R. 3352. Hydrographic surveys and shoreline mapping activities provide data to produce accurate nautical charts. Many vessels from large container ships and oil tankers to the smaller commercial fishing vessels and…

This particular bill helps solve the conundrum that we face in the protection and conservation of certain species: For example, the bony-tailed chub, the razorback sucker, and the humpback chub. H.R. 2515, introduced by Dean Heller of…

I rise in support of H.R. 3891. It does increase by five members the Board of Directors on the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Since its inception, this foundation has financed more than 9,500 conservation projects to sustain…

it is certainly hopeful that with the passage of this bill we will have faith in NOAA to administer this territory, since we obviously with passage of this bill don't trust them to evaluate or make recommendations.

I rise in support of H.R. 3473 and again yield myself such time as I may consume. This, along with Chairman Rahall's bill, are the two brilliant bills of this particular package. I can't say more. On behalf of my constituents who reside in…

H.R. 816 seeks to protect the citizens of Clark County, Nevada, from floods by releasing 65 acres from Sunrise Mountain Wilderness Study Area. This is a critical need for one of the fastest growing areas of the United States. Title to the…