Dan Newhouse

This legislation exhibits years of hard work, determination, and certainly collaboration.

I want to make it crystal clear that nothing in this bill undercuts public input.

This bill provides water users with the certainty needed to pursue and invest in these projects.

We need to get serious about our water future, and this bill is a step in the right direction.

This bill by Representative Newhouse represents a common-sense approach to reform and streamline the feasibility study process.

This bill further advances this Subcommittee's agenda of an 'all-of-the-above' water supply strategy.

The smaller dairy family wasn't able to put up the millions of dollars for defense, and so they closed their dairy.

Citizen lawsuits were intended to put citizens in place of the regulators if the regulators failed to do their jobs.

To help address the issue, Congressman Newhouse introduced the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, which now has 65 bipartisan cosponsors in the House.

RCRA, or the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, was never intended to apply to manure or crop residue returned to the soil as fertilizer or soil conditioner.

The goal of environmental rules should be to assist ag producers to improve nutrient management and reduce the environmental footprint, not to subject them to lawsuits that threaten to put them out of business.

I represent hardworking farmers of central Washington State.

I thank my colleagues for being here today to talk about their legislation.

The purpose of this bill is not to shield agricultural operations from RCRA citizen suits, but rather to ensure that if state or federal regulators are otherwise seeking compliance through civil, criminal, or administrative actions and the…

This legislation seeks to encourage farmers to be proactive stewards and create a climate to reinforce farmers' ability to trust that they, as they work with regulators, that their efforts to address stewardship issues will result in…

Most all Western States were impacted in one way or another by catastrophic fires this summer. Particularly hard hit was the great State of Oregon. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden), the chairman of the Energy and…

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Cheney).

We do deal with a lot of important issues on this floor. Today we are talking about something that, in this country, people are losing property, we are losing our natural resources, and, certainly, people are losing their lives. Mr…

I would just note that the admonition of my friend from Florida, that to bring bipartisan proposals forward, this absolutely is a bipartisan bill; support from both sides of the aisle, because, as I said in my opening comments, these kind…

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and also express my appreciation to Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers for her main sponsorship of this bill.

Let me just say that one of the beauties of Congress is being able to hear from people firsthand their experiences, who speak not just in theoretical senses but because of the life they live and their constituents, and so I appreciate very…

Let me just say to my good friend from California, I agree that a new authorization on the use of military force is something that is necessary, something that we owe our military, and something that we should do. The language with the…

I do know that even though some people would like to ignore the situation we have on our southern border, we do need to respond to those border protection agents who are asking us for help. We do need to respond to the crisis that we see…

The American people spoke loud and clear last November. They voted to support a stronger military, an unyielding national defense, and that includes the need for a much-improved border security. As the gentleman from Texas said, we have…

We do have a couple of speakers coming who are not here yet. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time at this point but look forward to having them participate as soon as they get here.