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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Rep. Rob Bishop charges that environmental laws are delaying the effort to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and hindering law enforcement officials from pursuing drug smugglers. The Utah Republican, the ranking GOP member on the House Natural Resources subcommittee over public lands, says that documents he obtained show Homeland Security officials are hitting environmental roadblocks in trying to erect...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Washington » Rep. Rob Bishop joined a growing list of Republicans on Tuesday pointing out the Obama administration's Recovery Act Web site is reporting stimulus money spent in nonexistent congressional districts.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Washington » Rep. Rob Bishop charges that environmental laws are delaying the effort to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and hindering law enforcement officials from pursuing drug smugglers.
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Dad29 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Your Gummint's typical modus operandi . In the battle on the U.S.-Mexico border, the fight against illegal immigration often loses out to environmental laws that have blocked construction of parts of the "virtual fence" and that threaten to create places where agents can't easily track illegal immigrants . Documents obtained by Rep. Rob Bishop and shared with The Washington Times show National...
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United Conservatives of Virginia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
China has no environmental concerns, no EPA, no controls. China buys into U.S. off-shore oil leases. Mark Tapscott, Beltway Confidential "If the administration approves the deal, it will be more vulnerable to charges that the White House is being careless with U.S. national security issues in the energy sector, and that it is putting the interests of a foreign power before those of U.S. energy...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is leading a protest by western Republicans against a new Interior Department order that requires it...
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The Senate Site (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Representative Rob Bishop wrote an op-ed in the Deseret News concerning the Red Rock Wilderness Bill (so-called "Hinchey Bill"). This bill (which all 5 members of our congressional delegation oppose) would set aside a huge chunk of land in Utah as federally protected. Yesterday, Jay Evensen of the Deseret News wrote a blog about the same subject. Read his take here . If you're interested,...
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Representative Rob Bishop’s (R-UT) is concerned about how the Department of the Interior is – or perhaps more appropriately isn’t - working with the Department of Homeland Security to secure our borders, and he let Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar know it at a hearing of the Committee on Natural Resources. As evidence of the issue’s gravity, Bishop points to a 2004 Interior...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Washington » Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, railed on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday, suggesting that his department was withholding key information from Congress needed to clear up alleged wrongdoing between administration officials and environmental groups.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
When Bob Bennett first ran for the Senate in 1992, then-state Rep. Rob Bishop was one of the first politicians to endorse him. Now that Bennett is seeking a fourth term -and facing some serious contenders within his own party, the senator has once again turned to Bishop asking for his help.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Washington » Rep. Rob Bishop complained Friday that the Agriculture Department was shipping wildfire management funds to states without national forests while Utah, which has six, received nothing from an $89 million allocation this week.
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The Senate Site (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Congressman Rob Bishop visited our Natural Resources Committee today. Listen to the audio here: RealPlayer or MP3 It's worth a listen. He starts discussing Cap & Trade at 3:20.
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StandardNET Local News Feed (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
LAYTON -- People at an energized town hall meeting eagerly tossed a variety of questions Wednesday night at Rep. Rob Bishop, the Utah congressman who scheduled the forum at the Layton City Center. But it was the topic of health care reform that drew the most derision, the most applause and received the most attention from the nearly 200 people who packed in to give the Republican politician a piece...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
The advice that Congressman Rob Bishop has for the Legislature's Ethics Interim Committee is simple -- namely, don't do what Washington does. "There is nothing more convoluted and just plain dumb than the federal campaign finance laws," Bishop told the bipartisan panel of lawmakers, criticizing
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