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Let me just conclude by saying I have one county that's 96 percent Federally owned. Ninety-six percent. That means 4 percent of the property is taxable in order to provide the services for all of you that come out and enjoy the beauty in…
Contrary to what the gentleman from Massachusetts just said, while this happened in 1995, it was not the Republican Congress. It was the Clinton administration and a result of the oil leases that were made under the Department of the…
It's important to remember what we're doing here. We're dealing with a CR that funds the government for the last 7 months. This is not a full-year appropriation bill. We're dealing with a much shorter period of time. So the $100 billion…
This is a dang good amendment, and it should pass. The EPA continually claims that they want certainty, but what they are creating is uncertainty. I can tell you that every rancher and every farmer in Idaho and across this Nation is…
That's accurate. But you don't have to prevail in the overall case. You could actually lose the case for what you are trying to do. It is the problem that good intentions have gone awry. And I will tell you that there are groups all across…
And members of the Committee, I rise in strong support of this legislation offered by my good friend from Wyoming. It would be one thing if what the gentleman from Virginia says were the case in reality. It's not the case in reality. I…
Beginning in 2005, the Shell Oil Company purchased leases in the Beaufort and the Chukchi Seas located within the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. The company paid over $2.1 billion for these lease rights, a reflection of the potentially…
I understand and sympathize with the amendment that the gentlelady from Wyoming is proposing. We in the West sometimes have a little bit different point of view. Regardless of where the funding comes from, whether it comes from money that…
We agree that there is a major problem with the wild horse and burro policy. It is too expensive and problematic for multiple uses on public lands and conserving western rangelands. The true problem is the law, not the funding of the law…
No. It's not even necessary to be a climate change skeptic to be an EPA greenhouse gas regulations skeptic. These regulations are all economic pain for little, if any, environmental gain. EPA can only regulate American companies, and we…
Section 1746 hits the pause button on the EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions because of what I think are unfounded fears about global climate change. As the chairman knows, and as the gentleman from Kentucky knows, over the…
Now, I understand my colleagues on the other side of the aisle might not like that. It's kind of foreign to them. For the last 4 years, we've had rules come to the floor that were closed. Members didn't have an opportunity to amend them…
If you cannot get Social Security solvent for 75 years and this Congress cannot do that, you can forget everything.
I tell people, read the trustees' report on Social Security. It has been done by Democrats and Republicans for years.
I feel like I went to bed a couple weeks ago and woke up in bizarro-world. We are about to spend over $1 trillion for a stimulus bill which will do little, if anything, to stimulate the economy. What it will stimulate is the growth of…
I have known Doc Hastings since I came here in 1999. He has always been kind of a mentor of mine, because we come from adjacent States, and a lot of the issues we deal with are similar. So I have consulted with him and sought his advice on…
I’ve worked very closely with the gay-lesbian community; we’re all human beings, for God’s sake.
I am grateful for their inclusion in this bill. I'd like to take just a few minutes to describe why I supported these projects and why they are valuable to the Nation and its taxpayers. The bill contains $900,000 for the City of Rocks Back…
I would like to place into the record a listing of the Congressionally-directed project in my home state of Idaho that is contained within the report to this bill. The project provides $4 million within the Army Corps of Engineers Section…
In accordance with House earmark reforms, I would like to place in the Record a listing of the congressionally-directed projects in my home state of Idaho that are contained in the report of the FY08 Interior, Environment and Related…
Once again this year, the bill before us is the result of a bipartisan atmosphere in the Energy and Water Subcommittee that has been fostered by Chairman Visclosky and Ranking Member Hobson. I want to thank both of them for the manner in…
I believe it is undefendable. I want to thank Chairman Obey for recognizing that even in a time of war, not all emergencies are war-related, that unanticipated circumstances occur that require our attention. Unanticipated floods and…
I rise today not because I want to take part in this debate, but because I am ashamed that this Congress is engaging in it at all. I've heard a lot of posturing so far this week. I've heard a lot of hyperbole and a lot of revisionist…
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