Rob Bishop

I hope we can solve it, which is also one of the reasons I hope Mr. Grijalva will simply schedule a hearing for a backlog bill

Look, I don't want to actually defend any bureaucracy in Washington, especially because the Department of the Interior, let's face it, if you were actually a business, you would have been bankrupt years ago.

I don't want a 1-hour plane ride, I want to walk around the block to him.

Cost is not the only dimension to this problem.

The Obama administration's notoriously rocky relationship with Congress, and even his own party, meant that he had to resort to overregulations to get stuff done. His pen and a phone approach resulted in considerable executive branch…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert), another former member of our committee and a long-time worker on water issues in Congress.

We join so many other voices from Indian Country and around the United States to respectfully urge that Congress fulfill its trust responsibility.

We believe that the decision made by the Department of Interior severely affects the Mashpee Wampanoag's Tribal Sovereignty.

the quality of life for the Tribe and its citizens has been significantly affected.

I guess what the gentleman is saying is, if you want the economy to grow, if you want people to be empowered, if you want to find solutions not only to environmental issues but also energy issues, empower people to come up with that. We…

One of the problems that Baltic countries have--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--is they are right next- door to the monolith Russia, that has used its energy potential to blackmail and intimidate these other countries. Even today, they…

I appreciate the opportunity of speaking one more time here especially because this is such a significant issue that you are addressing to the people and because, as leader of the Congressional Western Caucus, you have held a whole lot of…

I appreciate the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar) taking the lead this evening and talking about this important issue. Look, one of the things we always need to do is learn the lessons of history, so we simply do not repeat them. In the…

And that backup system is based on coal. Without that, they could not guarantee baseloads that they have to have just to keep their countries going.

I write to express the Salt River Project's (SRP) support of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan (DCP) implementing legislation submitted to Congress.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Burchett).

I think it clearly illustrates how crony capitalism is working very well in the last administration, and may do it again in the future.

never in my life have I been so grateful that I was a liberal arts major.

Like yesterday, when I was forced to leave because I had work to do, Democrats suggested that innovation is not the answer.

I have not, but those policies would not have the economic impacts that these other things that I have heard about today such as the Green New Deal and other policies would have on the economy.

Thank you for groveling before us.

But the Green New Deal would ban nuclear energy--which would effectively harm rural and low-income communities in my district and state.

I hope that we can actually get to those kind of activities, which would be extremely important.

The Minority Impact Assessment acts as a 'cooling saucer' to prevent regulations from imposing unrealistic expectations on specific people and communities.

If we can go to the point in future where Utah has as much Federal land as Massachusetts and North Carolina have, I will be tickled pink.