Alan Simpson

Start using those precious social media skills to go out and sign people up on this baby, three people a week, let it grow. And don't forget: take part or get taken apart. Boy, these old coots will clean out the treasury before you get…

On rollcall No. 613, on H.R. 6429, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote innovation, investment, and research in the United States, to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and for other purposes, had I been present…

If there are waters that the State is not regulating and they will eventually flow into navigable waters, and the only way to control the pollution in those navigable waters--the State is going to ultimately start controlling those…

The point is that they become navigable waters at some point. If they are being polluted by waters that are controlled by the States, eventually the State is going to have to say, You know what, we have got to get control of this…

You seem to think that the only way to address this problem is to have a Federal bureaucracy. You know what, we could bring clarity to all of our problems by just eliminating the States. Why have States? Why not have everything under…

I move to strike the last world. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Idaho is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank the chairman for his recognition. I don't have the letter to read, but listen, the only argument that's being made here that makes any sense is we have got to bring clarity to this issue. We have got to bring clarity to the…

I thank the gentleman from Utah for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2050, the Idaho Wilderness Water Resources Protection Act. This bipartisan, noncontroversial legislation is a technical fix intended to enable the…

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole), a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee that marked this bill up.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Washington, the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Dicks.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis), the former chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum), a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Budget Committee. Ms. McCOLLUM. I thank the chairman. I respect the bipartisan efforts of my colleagues on the Budget…

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert), a member of the Appropriations Committee and, more importantly, the Budget Committee.

I would inquire--we're ready to close--how much time do I have remaining, Mr. Chairman? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Idaho has 5 minutes remaining.

Stop Instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see ‘Gangnam Style.’

First, let me thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Dicks. As I've told many Members, if this is your first term or your second term or your third term here in this body, this is the first time you've actually seen an appropriation bill…

I think the key is here we have seen a lot of innovation on how to collect and not enough innovation on how to protect.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I loved listening to the gentleman from Washington's debate. Now, if the gentleman wants to really create some jobs in this country, we can create hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of jobs if we'll…

I reclaim my time. Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight in support of this continuing resolution. This CR is vital to keeping our government operating over the next 7 weeks while Congress completes its work on next year's budget. It's worth…

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Speaker, many Members of Congress, myself included, recognize that if we want to get our economy going again we need to take steps to get our fiscal house back in order and provide certainty to the…

And we tire of the phrase 'tax increase' when we are digging around in a $1.1 trillion stack of stuff called tax expenditures.

If you spend more than you earn, you lose your butt.

Well, we know you can't cut-spending your way out of this, you can't tax your way out of it.

Reclaiming my time, the gentleman is right. If wolf populations get below acceptable levels, then they go back on the endangered list. Guess what. Wyoming and Montana and Idaho are not going to let that happen. I think this is a good way…

A good friend of mine from Virginia once said that he would hear this on the floor, and I guess this is probably the first time that he's going to hear it; that is, the gentlelady makes a good point. But given the allocation that we have…