I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 53, line 18, insert ``, subject to appropriation,'' after ``expended''. Page 63, strike lines 1…

I want to remind folks, too, that the law already prohibits certain individuals from possessing a firearm, from using it at a public range. The acquisition or possession of a firearm by a person subject to 18 U.S. Code 922, section (g)…

This amendment strikes a provision of the SHARE Act that will allow the importation of 41 polar bears legally harvested from sustainable populations in Canada before the polar bear was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act…

I thank the gentleman from Nevada. I urge my colleagues to strongly support this amendment.

I urge adoption of the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wittman). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mr…

Yes, I will tell the gentleman from California that we will indeed work with you in looking at the future of the duck stamp program, making sure that it is managed in the proper way, making sure that, indeed, is getting dollars to where…

The minority's motion to recommit is an issue about chemicals in drinking water. Chemicals in drinking water is an issue that was addressed in the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was before this House. There were multiple opportunities…

I certainly agree with the gentleman from California that the duck stamp program is a great program. It does a tremendous amount of good. We all know the wetlands that are preserved with that. We all know it is a great opportunity for the…

I thank the gentleman from Virginia, and I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.

I thank Mr. Newhouse for yielding. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment.

So it really starts to show the openings in the fabric, so to speak, when you have to do those things.

that $500 million would go a long way toward helping increase the sustainment, restoration, and modernization divot that is currently programmed into our budget.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his perspectives on this and for the good conversation we have had in trying to find common ground to make sure that we are, indeed, supporting the great outdoors and the sportsmen and -women that…

I would like respond just briefly to the gentleman's remarks concerning ivory. If you look at the current state of regulatory efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for those nations that have sustainable elephant populations, it…

I want to make sure we are not too fast and loose with numbers.

I thank the gentleman from South Carolina for his leadership as vice chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. We have heard a lot of, I think, good efforts today in wanting to ensure that our sportsmen and our sportswomen have…

I want to thank you all for being here for this Readiness Subcommittee hearing on the Department of the Army's 2017 operations and maintenance [O&M] budget request and readiness posture.

Seems like to me, though, that what we are learning on LPD-28, we have made much of that transition.

So I am wondering if--you seem to be somewhat hesitant to say that the Navy can actually move it to the left.

Submarines are the original stealth platform. They clearly give us an asymmetric advantage.

Live-fly training, particularly for 5th generation aircraft, can be limited due to range restrictions, airspace and threat replicator limitations, environmental factors, and other issues.

I just want to make sure that we reflect the proper policy so you can continue to grow both the capacity and the capability.

I want to welcome everybody this morning. I thank our witnesses for joining us.

I would like to recognize a number of our great young airmen that are here from Langley Air Force Base.

This patch, if you will, that is going to temporarily stop the reduction in readiness from 50 percent on down, this is a patch, and that is all it is.