On behalf of the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title)…

This is a water rights issue in addition to an Endangered Species Act issue. This is an instance in which private water rights are being abrogated for the sake of a mouse that we don't even know exists in this area and the science about…

The gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce) was called away. I am standing in for him and want to join the previous amendment offerer in thanking the Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, as…

You are darn right there are success stories with the ESA. That is because the agency that was designed to implement the laws decided the species were recovered. They delisted them, and they are doing fine. That is why there are so many…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I would like to observe that I am the third of three daughters, and my father used to always say nothing good ever happens after midnight, which is why he gave us a midnight curfew. I am hoping he was talking about mountain daylight time…

As the designee of the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz), I offer amendment No. 15. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 73, line 3, after the dollar amount, insert…

With great respect for the gentlewoman from Minnesota with whom I have had the privilege to serve for these past 8 years and whom I admire for her diligence and thoughtful representation of her constituents and our country, I would assert…

This amendment transfers approximately $10 million to the EPA's Office of Inspector General from the $2.5 billion EPA environmental programs and management appropriations account. The amendment is necessary to support the EPA OIG's work…

How do two different agencies who are overseeing endangered species act in contradiction to each other?

I got to go to Fresno to a hearing on the Delta smelt, and I got to see the dried up almond trees, the dead pistachio trees.

I want to commend these California Members. I have been to their districts. I have seen and been at hearings in Fresno where these issues have come to my level of understanding of now a sympathetic outsider. These issues are almost…

I thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Knight) for his work and leadership on this legislation. I urge my colleagues to join me to honor the more than 400 individuals who lost their lives nearly 90 years ago by supporting this bill…

We saw a bunch of ads on TV about this bill and about what it would do to the bondholders. So I did some research. I rise in support of this bill as one of the more conservative members of the Republican wing of this House. The reason I…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina. Scientific research is an important province of the Federal Government, and normally I support it; but I support it if it has been authorized. The programs the gentleman from North Carolina has…

I am pleased this amendment will improve the stewardship of public lands, water, and natural resources throughout the West. I am pleased to see Western priorities included in this bill, from the drought-stricken California to the…

This year, the Land and Water Conservation Fund expired in its authorization on September 30. In October, we began reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund and reforming it to get it back to its original intent. And before we…

we want, as recreation is accessed online, to make it as easy as possible for people to use public lands.

Will there be any type of gap between when Active Network's contract ends and when the Booz Allen provided service comes online?

So you have information that is tremendously valuable to visitors to our public lands.

I understand. I have been in your shoes.

And so will they have links or ways to plus into your product so people can have access to their product?

Local and State travel and tourism officials tell us they have had difficulty working with Recreation.gov, and that is a big part of Wyoming's economy.

What sort of off-the-shelf products or existing technologies were part of the RFP process that you chose against because they didn't have features that you were looking for?

Today in the Natural Resources Committee here in the House we heard testimony about how the Bureau of Land Management's Planning 2.0 rule might affect counties around this country that are dealing with Federal lands in their districts…