I am encouraged to see that some of my colleagues across the aisle have been a voice for the minority, three percent of scientists today.

I am disappointed that many of my colleagues across the aisle have used this hearing to re-litigate whether climate change is happening and whether it is manmade.

Mr. Speaker, there is no shortage of issues here in Washington, and I find it so interesting when people come to our offices and ask: What is going on today? As you will hear, whether it is talking about foreign affairs, the job issues…

we passed a bill out of the House called the SKILLS Act, which is now over in the Senate.

You give a woman a fish and you feed her for a day, teach her to fish and you feed her for a lifetime.

I am wondering what has changed in the President's mind since 2012 when he said we needed to consolidate programs and have one program for people to come get the help that they need.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of Watauga County Deputy Sheriff William R. Mast, Jr. Deputy Mast was shot and killed while responding to a 911 call in Deep Gap, North Carolina, in 2012. Deputy Mast was only 23 years old when…

This was a painful, unnecessary, arbitrary cut to communities that can ill afford them.

Thank you very much for your visit to southern New Mexico.

And I really want to thank you for directing the ONRR to reverse its position and not sequester the funds.

This is the largest environmental settlement in history. And $1 billion of that will go towards clean up of abandoned uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation.

I think as we look at the authorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, potentially putting that together with PILT is an appropriate way of looking at a longer-term, permanent source of funding for both programs.

I think it has brought a comfort level in terms of health and safety to the community that we have the EPA being an independent monitor of these radiation releases.

these contract support costs are absolutely crucial for self determination and for the tribes to be able to move forward with the things they believe are important to them.

I am very concerned there might be a lapse. We have been able to work in the appropriations process to get a 1-year extension.

Tribal Head Start programs lost $11.9 million as a result of sequestration, impacting 25,000 children in 26 States.

BIE schools lost $42.2 million as a result of sequestration.

It has been absolutely devastating, the long terms effects sequestration has had on Indian Country.