H.R. 4419, the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Indian Affairs Water Project Streamlining Act, is a common-sense bill that reforms the current cumbersome and lengthy processes for water development efforts.

I thank the chairman of the Rules Committee, my friend, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this rule as well as the underlying legislation, H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This legislation demonstrates a…

I represent hardworking farmers of central Washington State.

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.

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.

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

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.

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…

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

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…

First, I want to thank my friend, the gentleman from Alabama, for letting me participate in this very important debate today. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule, but specifically to voice my very strong support for one of the bills…

I want to thank my friend from Florida for today's debate. The issue of proactive management of our Nation's Federal forests is critically important to the future and economic well-being of our whole country as well as to the health of our…

By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 595 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 595 Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this resolution the Speaker…

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…

On Tuesday, just yesterday, the Rules Committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 595, providing for consideration of an important piece of legislation, H.R. 2936, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017. The rule provides for…

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…

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…

I thank the gentleman from Oregon for his passionate words about the impact of catastrophic fires in his State. He is right. The fire from Oregon did jump the Columbia River into Washington, but that is not the only thing that they shared…

I thank the good gentlewoman from Washington State for her remarks. Mr. Speaker, how much time do I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington has 3\1/4\ minutes remaining.

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

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.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Arizona, my good friend, Mr. Gosar, for holding this Special Order and for giving us the opportunity not only to address the House on this very important issue, but also to address our Nation. Mr…

Today I rise to recognize two groups of young men, the Boy Scouts Jamboree Troop 3218 and the Grand Columbia Council, both from Washington State, as they recently attended the 2017 National Scout Jamboree. In the 107 years since its…

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…