Doc Hastings

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), the distinguished chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Daines), a hardworking member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the distinguished majority whip.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy).

I am very pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Marino).

I am very pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden), my colleague from Oregon, across the Columbia River from my district.

I advise my friend from Arizona I have no more requests for time, so I reserve the balance of my time.

I have no more requests for time and I am prepared to close now. I will have to close after those last remarks. I reserve the balance of my time.

I advise my friend I have no more requests for time. If the gentleman is prepared to yield back, I yield back the balance of my time.

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Nevada (Mr. Amodei), the author of this legislation.

I advise my friend I have another speaker, but I don't see him on the floor. Pending his arrival, I will reserve the balance of my time.

I urge adoption of this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert), the author of this legislation.

There are long-held concerns about the integrity and independence of the Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General under the leadership of Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall.

It is ridiculous that the OIG has been without a permanent head for 5 years.

The agency's feasibility study process needs to be modernized in a productive way.

We don't want good proposals to be studied to death and have paralysis-by-analysis.

Conservation alone is not the answer.

I firmly believe that America needs an 'all-of-the-above' water supply strategy.

In regards to oversight, it is not only Congress' right, but our responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable for its actions and decisions.

The cumulative method embodied in H.R. 4319 considers the true costs to the lives and livelihoods of those who live and work within a proposed designation.

H.R. 4319 requires the Secretary of the Interior to consider economic impact when designating areas within a proposed critical habitat designation.

I submitted legislation called the 'Common Sense in Species Protection Act,' which calls not only for the true measure of the cost of a designation on lives and livelihoods, but for that cost to be considered when making designations.

These bills demonstrate a continuing and growing awareness that ESA as it currently exists is not serving people or species well.

The committee has held numerous oversight hearings about the Obama administration's lack of ESA data transparency.