Mr. President, first, let me thank my colleague from New Hampshire, Senator Shaheen, for her extraordinary commitment and leadership as my fellow cochair of the Senate Diabetes Caucus. We are introducing a bill to improve access to…

Water-dependent businesses from coast to coast need our help.

I am grateful to have a chance to talk a little bit about this bill with you today.

I have been proud to work across the aisle with my colleagues, including Congressman Wittman of Virginia, to create bipartisan solutions that can work for America's coastal communities.

Across the country, working waterfronts are rapidly disappearing due to heavy development pressure.

More than 30,000 Mainers rely on marine-related industries for their livelihoods.

One of the things I have learned in studying the issues of the forest is that a growing forest sequesters more carbon than a mature forest.

I am introducing legislation to have a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine the inventory process to see if it needs to be changed.

So if there were more commercial, market-based policies being applied in our forests, we'd have a healthier forest, would we not?

30 percent of the forest land in America is federal. 70 percent of acreage burned last year was on federal land. There's something wrong here.

What in the hell is happening?

I appreciate your extraordinary service and your straightforward testimony here today.

So I think from a point of view of carbon, if greater harvesting... can actually contribute to the sequestration of carbon.

I am very concerned that Afghanistan is going to fall to the Taliban and that we, once again, will see the imposition of Sharia law.

Let me just say, we're proud of the work that the shipbuilders did, they got it done.

This past December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, which included section 21, I know you are familiar with...

I just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of what you were talking about with Representative Luria.

China, on the other hand, now has the world's largest Navy, has about 60 more ships than our own fleet.