It is my heartfelt belief that we can provide businesses and communities with greater certainty by using a more targeted approach.

I am terrified by 'interagency process.'

What do I mean by finishing the job? I mean build on the work we started last Congress...

When the Fish and Wildlife Service makes their determinations regarding a species, I am told it does so based on best available science.

The President's budget request includes just over $2 billion for the Fish and Wildlife Service, $2 billion.

No country, let alone a permanent member of the UN Security Council, can be allowed to succeed in waging an aggressive war of conquest, replete with grotesque war crimes, to redraw international borders.

We cannot default and we cannot fail to appropriate.

The Service's mission of conserving, protecting, and enhancing our Nation's wildlife and habitats has never been more critical.

The way to put America back on top and create the best-educated workforce is to make it so preschool for three and 4 year-olds is universal.

The Service must take climate science into account and must provide protection for species, even when it means the regulations may impact industries that aren't causing the species' decline.

If I could, I'll just assert that those existing regulatory bodies and authorities are under resourced and lack many of the statutory regulatory powers that they need.

This increase would provide much needed resources at a time when we are asking the agencies to do more.

I'm really concerned that generative AI technologies can undermine the faith of democratic values and the institutions that we have.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, as you know, invested some $25 million, $26 million in the Delaware River watershed.

I hope we are successful.

There has been increasing talk about how the issue called permitting reform could somehow end up playing a role to help get us to make sure we don't do something like a self-inflicted wound and default on our debt.

Let me conclude by saying that when Congress tasks an agency with an important mission and an increased workload, we must in turn provide sufficient funding so that they can get the job done that they are expected to do.

I think we need to pursue this both at the national level and the international level.