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Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the 23rd governor of Washington since January 16, 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Inslee has focused on issues such as climate change, clean energy, and healthcare during his tenure. He previously represented Washington's 1st and 2nd congressional districts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2012, respectively.
If I may dovetail on your disenchantment with the total irresponsible comments of the Secretary. He said there was al Qaeda in Iraq before our attack on Iraq, and the evidence would suggest that was not the case. But as a result, following…
We need to stop the administration from stealing from the Social Security trust fund to pay for this war, and that is what they are telling us they want to do. They want to take $87 billion out of the Social Security trust fund to pay for…
Is it a fair statement that under the policies of this administration that they have advocated as far as their budget that the veterans system that was in existence when these soldiers and sailors went to Iraq, when they come back from…
As a father, I rise in opposition to H.R. 2210, which will dismantle Head Start, which should be strengthened, not weakened, in any economic time.
I bring this amendment to the House's attention really to deal with a weakness in our existing laws regarding the disposal of low-level nuclear waste. In the State of Washington, the Department of Energy has plans to ship into the Hanford…
In the second regulation, specifically roads built to maintain and restore characteristics of composition and structure such as to reduce the risk of end characteristic wildfire effects. The truth is, the roadless area rule allows building…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the highest court in the land to have dealt with the roadless area rule, affirmed the roadless area rule. It is true that a lower court in Wyoming, a State perhaps not known for great environmental policy…
History is a harsh judge. In years to come, our children will be called to judge what happened here tonight, May 22, 2003. When they learn that you have put $1 trillion of debt on their young children, something they do not understand…
I have not seen the gentlewoman at one meeting, I have not seen her at one negotiating session where we discussed the details of that. Frankly, I consider it a cheap shot when one of my colleagues stands up here in front the American…
There are a lot of reasons to oppose this bill. I mean, one is do we trust appointed bureaucrats with our precious natural resources? They created this problem through 100 years of mismanagement; and this is giving all the discretion in…
This is an issue that ought to unite Republicans and Democrats. It really should. I know the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) has talked about talk radio. But I just believe, no matter whether you are vanilla or chocolate or Neapolitan…
If I may report from Seattle what happened, two courageous members of the FCC came out and were willing to listen to citizens on their own time a few months ago; and over 300 people, I think, turned out, once we got a little bit of the…
After being begged by multiple people, they held one hearing 2,500 miles from my district. Mr. Speaker, the Forest Service, by contrast, when they considered the roadless rule, which is another important rule, they held six hearings…
I thought about characterizing the Republican budget as a bad budget, but that is not really right, because it is not a budget, it is a ``fudget.'' It fudges cuts in veterans affairs, it fudges the tax cut you cannot reconcile yourself to…
I have been to Yellowstone, Glacier, and Mt. Rainier National Parks. And after being on the banks of the Aichilik River, right next to where they want to put this oil production facility, I can warrant there is no more beautiful…
One of the problems on this sort of assault on environmental protection by this administration is that it is not just one front, it is a multifront assault on environmental protection. One that the gentleman just alerted me to is the…
We need leaders who will not sing Nero's song, which he sang as Rome burned, which was, 'We need more research.'
I would just like to report from the Democratic cloakroom that when we saw this spontaneous tribute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen), somebody said, You know, he is a really nice guy, and there was universal shaking of the heads…
96 percent of the Americans who commented on this wanted a strong roadless area bill to protect our pristine area, yet what did the President of the United States do? He ignored them. Now he is trying to back up on this rule to allow…
Because of drought and dryness conditions, it is going to burn through anything even if you have done preventive thinning in these extremely dry forests. The sad fact is, yes, there is some work that we can do to remove fuel loads in some…
Global warming is upon us. The glaciers are melting, the West is on fire due to prolonged drought, the tundras of Alaska are melting and the White House has now confirmed this. It has issued a report that says global warming is occurring…
That is most regrettable because that is the aspiration of the American people and the world, and we ought to fulfill it.
The Arthur Andersen accountants are really confused today. For the last several weeks, they have been listening to the Republican Party trooping in front of the television cameras and calling them irresponsible, reckless and fiscally…
Where are the smartest people in the world going? They are going to America. Physicists from Ireland, computer specialists from India, folks from all over the world are coming to this country as the mecca of democracy, and they are making…
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