I want to thank the Members, particularly the panelists, for your extraordinary participation, for your expertise, and for your thoughtful commentary.

USGS should have the funding needed for 3DEP in their budget.

What if we did this State by State? Let's look, just for example, at H.R. 916.

Our intent is just to give them the authority to make these decisions pursuant to a plan.

This bill's intent is to vest river management decisions in the Superintendents of the park where they can be properly considered.

These groups, of which many were instrumental in designing the Snake River Headwaters as wild and scenic, expected the new management plan for those rivers to include a public discussion on the benefits of paddling.

This legislation is in response to the Comprehensive River Management Plan environmental assessment that was published for public comment under the Craig Thomas Snake Headwaters Legacy Act of 2009.

I really do appreciate the opportunity to present legislation to provide for paddling in Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the National Elk Refuge.

We greatly appreciate Representative Lummis for seeking to remedy this problem with the River Paddling Protection Act.

Well, it has been a head-scratcher to me that we do allow controlled, managed, planned access for snowmobiles in the winter into Yellowstone, and yet during times of year when kayakers would like to use certain waters in the park, they…

The intent is not to open all rivers all the time to paddling in the parks.

This bill does not prohibit Park Superintendents from proposing park management plans on paddling or restricting access in their annual compendiums.

I very much appreciate the legislation that he is introducing today and I am strongly supportive of it.

Wyoming's payments to the U.S. Treasury for oil, gas, and coal royalties nearly pays for the entire BLM budget. And I would point out that, contrary to what the gentleman said about the increase in production on Federal land, between the…

I would like to put a couple things straight that have been said. We are not talking about all Federal lands in this bill. We are not talking about National Park Service lands. National parks and national monuments are excluded from this…

Given the current budgetary outlook of skyrocketing entitlement spending crowding out discretionary funding, it is imperative to maximize the value of limited tax dollars.

Only with terrorists, apparently.

Coal is our country's most abundant and affordable energy sources.

If EPA is allowed to twist the definition of 'adequately demonstrated' to include yet-to-be-proven technologies for power plants, there is also little to stop EPA from doing the same for other manufacturers like refiners, cement or steel…

So it is a fair statement for me to say that storage is needed in order to add more total water capacity to conveyances.

the technology is unproven but will suddenly appear and the prices that won't go up

What happens in California is important to my State because we are at the headwaters, and a lot of the water in the Green River flows into the Colorado and ends up in your neck of the woods.

This regulation effectively bans the building of new coal plants, and fulfills President Obama's campaign promise to bankrupt coal companies.

I do wish the EPA was here today, at least to listen to our concerns, and I consider an invitation extended on September 27th for a hearing that is occurring about a month later to be pretty good time to prepare.

On rollcall No. 539, I was detained in a hearing and missed rollcall 539. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint resolution. The question was taken; and the…