Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Markey

Updates to the program must be made to more accurately reflect today's uses and demands for helium.

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

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

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.

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'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…

I submit for publication the attached copy of the rules of the Committee on Natural Resources for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 113th Congress: RULE 1. RULES OF THE HOUSE; VICE CHAIRMEN (a) Applicability of House Rules. (1) The…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 378, noes 37, not voting 16, as follows: [Roll No. 657] AYES--378…

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 yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Johnson), the author of title I of this legislation.

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 yield myself the balance of my time, and I will do my best to capsulize. Mr. Chairman, it was the President, when he was a candidate, that said that his policies, if enacted, would cost coal jobs. For nearly 4 years we have seen evidence…

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

I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, in his 2008 campaign, President Obama plainly declared the policies he supports would bankrupt American coal production. Since taking office, the Obama administration has waged a…

How much time is remaining on both sides? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington has 3\1/2\ minutes, and the gentleman from Massachusetts has 1\1/2\ minutes.

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.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this bill is really not as complicated as my good friend from Ohio tries to make it appear to be. Now, I recognize, and we've had conversations on this when the bill was introduced…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 5987 is a bipartisan bill authored by me that will establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Mr. Speaker, there is a like bill, a bipartisan bill, also pending in…

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.

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.