I represent Oregon's 4th Congressional District in Southwest Oregon, and the Bureau of Land Management manages over 800,000 acres of timberland in my district.

We are nickel and diming and arguing over continuing this contracting with the Oregon Department of Forestry and the BLM because we have a limited amount of money that we put up front for forest fire prevention.

The official estimate says that $540 billion of taxes owed go unpaid each year.

The Congress ought to take a smarter approach.

Democrats made a big investment in taxpayer service with the Inflation Reduction Act, and it goes without saying that now the American people have a right to know what they got with that investment.

The numbers paint a clear picture. Last year, the IRS was able to answer 15 percent of the phone calls it got. This year, it was 87 percent.

Democrats are committed to the proposition that it should not cost hundreds of dollars and many more hours of time simply to follow the law and to pay what you owe.

the next time that we have really bad wildfires, it is not just going to be 4,000 homes. It will be one of our urban areas, and it will make the Paradise California Fire look like a campfire.

Apparently, if he does not get what he wants, he is willing to let this country go through a catastrophic default.

I have submitted a request for this budget to include some dedicated funds for supporting folks who advocate for, and support environmental defenders.

I really salute the administration's commitment to those--to the four programs: So one is the dioxin cleanup, one is the disabilities with children, and a third is continuing the demining, and the fourth is the Wartime Accounting…

We have seen more and more environmental defenders slaughtered across the globe, 1,733 environmental defenders killed in the last decade.

It is exciting, as someone who grew up during the Vietnam War, to see the positive relationship that we now have with Vietnam, and hoping to build on that.

I have referenced and have put forward legislation on the de minimis loophole, where they are now importing directly over two million packages a day that escape any meaningful detection.

I was one of those people that took the Chinese representations at face value, voted to get them into the WTO.

Watching now, 20 years later, they are doing this dual track, playing the developing country when it suits their purposes.

I hope we can all agree that now is the time to move from rhetoric to action.

Creating sustainable funding streams for airport infrastructure projects must be a priority in this FAA Reauthorization.