Cynthia Lummis

Thank you for holding this hearing, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

With all the different ways the EPA can find water to be jurisdictional under the proposed rule, can you think of a water body that would not be under the Federal proposed rule?

The primary concern I have with contradiction with state water rights, and I have mentioned this already, is the proposed assertion of reserve rights.

In order to do your job effectively as State Engineer, how important is it that the Forest Service play by the same rules as any other land owner or water user in the state?

Now, can you explain the significance of that Directive and what that would do and how it might impact water rights holders in Wyoming and elsewhere in the West?

There really is no position more important in the State of Wyoming than the State Engineer

Do you have an opinion about whether the Park Service has a good track record in managing infrastructure projects to protect the parks?

I know that on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, in Indian County elsewhere in the country as well, you have to get permission from the Federal Government to turn your cattle into a specific pasture, and it can be delayed for weeks…

We have created a lot of new monuments and Federal designations while I have been here in Congress.

What other safeguards are already built into the permitting process to make sure infrastructure like pipelines have only negligible impacts on a park?

And so, we have a genuine, serious problem with multiple layers of bureaucracy with regard to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

During Republican presidencies, heads of the BIA were extremely frustrated. During Democrat administrations the heads of the BIA were tremendously frustrated.

It goes to grazing and a whole variety of things. And it is recognized as a bipartisan issue.

I just find it rather frustrating that, as the focus of this Administration seems to be on air quality, and now they are shifting over to water, trying to usurp a lot of State water rights, and under new Federal regulations, just the way…

I would like to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the status of particle physics research in the United States.

At this time, I would like to yield 7 minutes to the gentlelady from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn).

In great appreciation and deference to the gentleman on the Judiciary Committee, and especially to my cosponsor, Mr. Cohen, I gratefully acknowledge his cosponsorship--he supported this bill--and the hard work of the House Judiciary…

I deeply appreciate it. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 2919.

It does seem to be pretty common in Federal agencies, where the Federal agencies have a cognitive dissonance.

The gentleman yields back. The Chair recognizes herself for one last question.

It is high time to stop wasting taxpayer dollars and rewarding frivolous and abusive litigation.

I strongly support the passage of these measures to improve the ESA and urge the committee to advance them in the legislative process.

H.R. 4316, The Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act, introduced by Rep. Lummis, would require the FWS to report the resources used to respond to ESA litigation.

Should the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service be basing listings and other important decisions on studies and opinions that cannot be accessed or verified?

It is very difficult for people in the local community to trust the bureaucrats in Washington when they give an answer like that that affects hundreds of people.