I mean, you can't say I don't want to see an oil rig from Mar-a-Lago as I look out from the waters of Palm Beach, but it is OK to look at an oil rig from Hilton Head or Charleston, South Carolina.

I was unavoidably detained. had I been present, I would have voted ``Yea'' on rollcall No. 29. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared…

There is an abundance of scientific evidence that seismic stuff has a real impact on our mammals.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

addressing climate change might help with those catastrophic wildfires also

This Administration's energy dominance agenda feels as if we are going back to the rhetoric in the agenda of decades-old energy policies.

The tax bill we passed today has little in common with what Speaker Ryan described to us yesterday. Putting more money into the pockets of working people would be great, but that is not what they wrote this bill to do. I have grown a…

If that is true, that is damning, that somebody could actually spend more on our environmental document provision than the cost of the dam itself.

Did you have personal experience with this?

if we can all acknowledge that climate change is real, perhaps we can work more closely together

I think this is implicit in Congressman Newhouse's testimony and Mr. Eberhart's, also.

The public deserves to have a say on this, and Republican leadership should stop trying to sneak in provisions to eliminate public comment.

I was so dismayed when twice Republican leadership tried to sneak into the appropriations bill language that would suspend the comment period.

I want to begin by just defending unelected bureaucrats, also known as civil servants.

The Administration should be listening to scientists, not industry that wants to dump or endanger our drinking water.

using the services or software of Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company that reportedly has close ties to Russian intelligence services, using this on federal networks presents risks not worth taking.

I was deeply disappointed at the rate of recovery of potable water.

Shouldn't the Army Corps be helping to build back a better, more resilient grid than what existed before?

We should also examine the state of our cybersecurity practices in defending our critical election infrastructure from covert interference and manipulation.

I confess the number of emails I get every week from family members that have the wildest possible theories.

cybersecurity is no longer just about defending our data. It is on a larger scale about defending our democracy from unwanted foreign influence and disinformation campaigns.

Let me go further on that. I love the--Ph.D. in military history. It was a fascinating educational background.

If I can be parochial for just a minute, in two days, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket is going to launch from the mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility up to the International Space Station with important supplies…

The current budgeting process, including the regular use of continuing resolutions, threat of government shutdowns, lack of a stable budgetary environment prohibits this kind of trade space to be used.

The American people, Republican, Democratic and everything else, deserve a higher standard of experience and accomplishment from the top scientific leaders in our government.