Howard Griffith

Yes. What the franchisors in this context want is to have their cake and eat it too.

As President Reagan said, there's no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I do think that we need to increase our infrastructure both for natural gas and to make sure that we have refueling for electric as we move into this direction.

Taking no action isn't working. He is right. And we are going to have to take action.

I have to respond. I read the legislation, and I am not voting for it. So there.

As you all know, I don't come from an area that has nuclear waste in the southwest section of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Hear, hear, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we are working on some technology right now that allows us to extract rare earth minerals out of some of our coal deposits to the United States and be able to…

And so there are lots of things we need to worry about in that regard. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman bringing that up today, because what we want to do is have a balanced approach. We want renewables. We want all of the above…

Because the birds don't see the heat, and they fly into it, and they are fried to a crackly crunch.

So when the gentleman started talking about birds, I came back to the mike. We hope science will solve these problems, and that is why we need to have more research and development on all of this. Instead of saying, stop everything, we…

And so while I know they weren't thinking about it or they probably didn't mean to go that far, it shows you that even if we modified it, it won't work for the people. Jobs would be eliminated, jobs will be cut, and we really won't have…

And if you eliminate carbon dioxide--the gentleman is correct--we won't have any plants. If we don't have any plants, oxygen plummets in the atmosphere. And as I told a group of high school students recently, and you know what that means…

And you know what is interesting about this is, I do represent a coal district, but if we shut down all of this, as we have discussed in the Green New Deal, are the Indians going to stop using coal? Of course not. Are the Chinese going to…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, you know I would like to engage in colloquies and talk about issues.

This committee had significant concerns about and accordingly extensively studied the navigators program in the previous administration.

If we are going to look at workforce development in a holistic way, we should look at populations that have seen a decline in industry jobs, such as many localities in my district, and we need to make sure that economic development is a…

If we are going to look at workforce development in a holistic way, we should look at populations that have seen a decline in industry jobs, such as many localities in my district, and we need to make sure that economic development is a…

I appreciate all who have been here today giving speeches. The government shutdown is now over, but the crisis continues on the border. About 10 days ago, I was down on the border, and I saw firsthand what was happening down there and…

I thank the gentleman for his remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for the conclusion on this great trip.

Continuing in this colloquy with my friend from Arizona, I ask if he would agree that when we heard from the border agents that the wall--this bollard fencing, wall, however you want to describe it--is important, but things like having…

In fact, there, they had a road as well, which our border agents told us was very helpful. When you have a wall, you have a road next to it to help catch those folks who are trying to come through. But they had a device up, also, made of…

The reason that illegal immigrants or drug cartels would like it that way is that they can roll that back and, wearing their carpeted shoes which prevent tracking, they can then come in there, put it back, and that way the border agents…

In fact, was it not accurate that you could actually roll back part of the barbed wire fence once you took the rope off and you could have multiple people coming through at any given moment?

I thank the gentleman for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for a question. Mr. Speaker, in listening to the gentleman's remarks, of course I was there and saw this rope as well, but I think the…

I come to the floor tonight to discuss a trip that was recently made to our southern border in Arizona with the sovereign state of Mexico. Mr. Biggs headed that party up, and at this time, Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona…