Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, H.R. 5001 would extend the Upper Colorado and San Juan recovery implementation programs and their reporting requirements for an additional year. The programs provide…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I also rise in support, along with Chairman Grijalva, and I thank him for his support of H.R. 3113, the MAPLand Act, offered by the ranking member of the Natural…

Madam Speaker, I encourage adoption of this commonsense bill. It will be very beneficial to provide better access to our outdoor recreation areas, and I think it would also be a great benefit to Americans. Madam Speaker, I urge adoption…

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I also rise in support, along with Chairman Grijalva, of H.R. 3197, the Save the Liberty Theatre Act, offered by Mr. Johnson of Louisiana. Mr. Johnson's bill…

Mr. Speaker, I am ready to close when the gentleman from Arizona is. I reserve the balance of my time.

Madam Speaker, again, I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I want to thank you and Chairman Carper for having this so, so very important hearing.

Access to safe and reliable water is critical for all Americans.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, along with Chairman Grijalva, I rise in support of H.R. 4380, which would designate the El Paso Healing Garden in El Paso, Texas, as a national memorial. On August 3…

Mr. Speaker, I encourage passage of this bill. I have friends back in Arkansas who, like Representative Matsui, at a young age, were in some of these internment camps, and they are great Americans, very patriotic. We owe it to them to…

Creating security in the post-Cold War era requires that we unite, not divide. The pledges on security assurances that Prime Minister Major, President Yeltsin and I have given these three nations move us further in that direction. They…

Russia doesn't want a direct conflict with the United States.

I have the unavoidable conclusion that influenced part of it.

I don't believe it, and I don't believe there's intelligence to support it.

I still don't think there's any intelligence to justify that distinction.

the Intelligence Community has assessed the transfer of MiG-29s to Ukraine may be mistaken as escalatory and could result in significant Russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation with NATO.

I want to address a bigger point, and I want to join with a lot of my colleagues to commend the Intelligence Community.

Vladimir Putin simply deterred the U.S. government from providing these aircraft by saying they would view this as escalatory.