Doc Hastings

This action hurts future resource development, conservation, and investment in research for alternatives.

Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Markey

We applaud Chairman Hastings, Ranking Member Markey for their work on this bill.

H.R. 527 is important and urgently needed legislation to address the helium supply.

I'm pleased that through bipartisan negotiation and a focus on market principles, Ranking Member Markey and I have developed a bipartisan plan, the Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act (H.R. 527), to address the issues…

This action hurts future resource development, it hurts conservation, and it hurts investment in research in alternatives, because of the depressed price.

Unfortunately, unless Congress takes swift action, America will float off the helium cliff--pun intended--which will adversely affect American jobs and our economy.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. And let me be the first here in this post session of Congress to say that this is the last session that our senior colleague from Washington (Mr. Dicks) will be serving, and he will be certainly missed…

I appreciate the gentleman's amendment. I think it adds a great deal to this legislation. Too often, we overlook common sense, and that's precisely what the gentleman's amendment does, so I support his amendment.

I'd advise my friend from Massachusetts that we're prepared to close if he is prepared to close on his side.

I would be more than happy to yield 3 minutes to the author of the legislation that is encompassed in title I of this bill, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Johnson).

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rogers).

I advise my friend from Ohio I have no more requests for time, and I am prepared to yield back if he is prepared to yield back.

The IRS's policy potentially exposes many impoverished Indian people in Washington State to new, unexpected tax liabilities in a time of high unemployment and rising energy prices.

The discrepancy in the treatment of these payments is a source of great uncertainty to tribes everywhere, particularly those actively engaged in forest management.

This hearing is needed to clarify ambiguous and potentially conflicting policies of the Obama Administration relating to the federal government's income tax treatment of certain payments made by tribes to their enrolled members.

The IRS policy potentially exposes many impoverished Indian people in Washington State to new, unexpected tax liabilities at a time of high unemployment and rising energy prices.

This hearing is needed to clarify ambiguous, potentially conflicting policies of the Obama Administration relating to the Federal Government's income tax treatment of certain payments made by tribes to their enrolled members.

Will the gentlelady yield? Ms. McCOLLUM. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

I'm pleased to yield the balance of my time to the author of this legislation, Mr. Cravaack of Minnesota. {time} 1340

I only have one other speaker and we have the right to close, if the gentleman wants to use his time.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the sponsor of this legislation, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Cravaack).

I'll just advise my friend that I am prepared to close if he will yield back.

I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the chairman of the subcommittee that dealt with this legislation, the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop).

I am very pleased to yield 8 minutes to the sponsor of this legislation, somebody who has worked extremely hard on behalf of his constituents to correct the injustice that was imposed in 1978, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Cravaack).