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American politician (1931–2025)
You say we could reopen the government, yes, if we put the Senate CR on the floor. We could also open it if the Senate would bring up the House CR and pass it. So there are different ways to address this. I reserve the balance of my time.
The gentleman from Virginia has his own time. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky, Hal Rogers, the honorable chairman of the full Appropriations Committee.
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…
Stop Instagraming your breakfast and tweeting your first-world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see 'Gangnam Style.'
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…
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…
Stop Instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see ‘Gangnam Style.’
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.
And we tire of the phrase 'tax increase' when we are digging around in a $1.1 trillion stack of stuff called tax expenditures.
Well, we know you can't cut-spending your way out of this, you can't tax your way out of it.
I insist on my point of order. The amendment proposes a net increase in budget authority in the bill. The amendment is not in order under section 3(j)(3) of House Resolution 5, 112th Congress, which states: ``It shall not be in order to…
I reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. A point of order is reserved. The gentleman from New York is recognized for 5 minutes.
I thank the gentlelady. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair…
While I appreciate what the gentlelady is trying to do, and actually agree with what she's trying to do, I must insist on my point of order against the amendment because it provides an appropriation for an unauthorized program and…
I reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman's point of order is reserved. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
I would be more than happy to yield. Mr. LaTOURETTE. If I seek to amend my amendment to say ``Great Lakes Restoration Fund/Climate Change,'' will the gentleman give me my 50 bucks?
It is absurd to think that repealing a Secretarial order which does not supercede Federal law somehow changes the underlying Federal law. It does not. FLPMA still exists whether the Secretarial order is there or not.
What does it hurt? It doesn't hurt a thing. What the gentleman is suggesting is because we are essentially saying you can't follow Secretarial order 3310, that means you can't follow FLPMA, which requires the inventory of these lands. They…
Part of the reason I was praising him is because he came over and sat down and listened to us and realized that there was a problem with Secretarial order 3310.
The amendment deals with the Secretarial order, not just wild lands. I yield back the balance of my time.
Reclaiming my time, the Secretarial order which is in question needs to be withdrawn, and then he needs to issue a new one which doesn't include this new designation of wild lands because that still stands out there even though he says…
Reclaiming my time, western Washington. I just want you to know that there have been several wolves that have come to my house, and they presented me with a petition that they would like to visit the Cascades.
I thank the gentleman for his comments. I would just say to the gentleman from Washington that was supportive of the reintroduction of wolves in Idaho and Montana and Wyoming that put us in this situation, several wolves----
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…
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