Press Releases
June 20, 2012
As much as I appreciate the process, I can't support the product. The deep funding cuts to important conservation and environmental protection programs would, if enacted, cause serious harm to our environment. Likewise, this bill again includes a number of riders and funding limitations that I believe do not belong in the bill and whose effect would be to undermine important environmental law.
Issues:Interior and Environment
June 19, 2012
Agriculture
Olver Opening Statement at Full Committee Markup on the Transportation, HUD Appropriations bill FY13
June 19, 2012
Last year, the leaders of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO, not usually bedfellows, agreed that we must have greater investment in our nation's infrastructure in order to create jobs and to be competitive in the global economy. A modern, well maintained transportation network is absolutely necessary for our economy to grow and the country to prosper.
Issues:Transportation, HUD
June 19, 2012
Dodd-Frank expanded CFTCs oversight 8-fold from the $37 trillion futures market to the over-the-counter swaps market -- a domestic market of over $300 trillion in notional value. So just when the CFTC needs to scale up, theyre being slapped with deep cuts that strangle their ability to safeguard against another financial collapse.
Issues:Agriculture
June 19, 2012
On April 27th, The Federal Communications Commission approved a rule requiring TV broadcasters to put public ad disclosure documents online. These documents are currently only available as hard-copies in the station's files and require members of the public to travel to the stations and make copies. On June 5th, House Republicans released their Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill for FY13. The bill contains a legislative rider blocking the FCC from implementing the new rule.
June 19, 2012
In addition to another round of special interest anti-environment riders, the EPA is cut -17% below last year...Despite the hyperbole of some of my Republican friends, EPA programs and regulations did not cause this recession and tying the hands of this important agency certainly won't get us out - that idea is as fictional as recent reports of EPA drones.
June 8, 2012
The 41% cut from the President's $308 million budget request for the CFTC is unconscionable. It's designed to cripple the CFTC.
Issues:Agriculture
June 8, 2012
Months of bipartisan effort and work were swamped in just a few hours as Republicans accommodated and embraced amendments that I believe they would have had the courage and discipline to reject in previous congresses.
June 6, 2012
The bill before us provides adequate funding for DHS front line employees so that they can continue to conduct critical operations along our borders; protect our nation's airports and seaports; disrupt the latest plots against the United States and our citizens; and respond to the spate of natural disasters our country has experienced.
Issues:Homeland Security