It appears to me that our changing climate is playing a role in the prolonged and more severe drought...

Can CEQ, the Interior Department, the Agriculture Department, or any aspect of our Federal Government possibly claim to be living up to the goals set forth in NEPA if we continue to deny climate science and ignore climate change in our…

It is disappointing that we are not doing our jobs and having hearings on the impacts of climate change on our Nation.

Those arguments help us understand what this hearing is really about--climate denial.

It's a classic case of environmental injustice because Native American communities typically do the least among us to contribute to climate change, but they bear the impacts first and worst.

But this hearing is about whether we should close our eyes and hope that climate change goes away. I promise, it won't.

Yes, climate change is real, and we are experiencing the impacts and paying for them right now.

If climate change is indeed real, and I believe it is, as you do, and if the impacts of climate change are those we just discussed, would you say we are currently living up to the goals set by Congress in NEPA?

Wolves are not a public safety hazard. Bees, domestic dogs, and deer kill far more people each year than the zero killed by wolves.

Wolves are not a major source of livestock mortality, particularly cattle.

Wolves are not depleting populations of other wildlife to dangerously low levels.

The science is clear that these species are not foreign imports or hybrids. They are as American as mom and apple pie.

I am disappointed in the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to abandon red wolf recovery efforts in North Carolina, and I hope we can learn more today about how the Service should approach bringing this critically endangered species back…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) and the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), my good friends, for their leadership in managing today. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, in strong support of this…

Mr. Speaker, I just want to commend my friend from Pennsylvania who has spent so much effort on this. We had testimony in the Energy and Commerce Committee, families coming before us who were in situations that are difficult and gives them…

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 670) to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend the Medicaid rules regarding supplemental needs trusts for Medicaid beneficiaries to trusts established by those…

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material in the Record on the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson).