Thank you, Senator. You timed it just perfectly.

I think it is an incredibly important investigation and report. We need to shine a light on the past in order to understand issues that may help us direct into the future.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

Forest Service salaries--I should say, Federal salaries, in many of the locations across the country is not holding up to salaries in other non-Federal jobs.

It is an incredible national parks system, but it only works if we have people staffing it.

Similarly, approval expanding a fossil fuel pipeline in my state is contrary to the steps that Oregon has taken to build a clean energy future.

I encourage you to persist aggressively, given the consequences of failure, and we certainly have a deeply entrenched company, or companies, determined to keep addicting children.

it is time to say that DFC has to rethink this strategy doing far more harm than good.

I think it is actually something that you would have the power to do without legislation.

Always better if a problem never occurs, a crime is never committed.

Your position as the first Native American Cabinet Secretary is historic.

I am going to keep working to pass the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act, to clarify in statute.

We must recognize as a Congress that non-defense funding is just as important as defense spending.

All three provide transformative investment.

One of the things that both Russia and China have been engaged in is transnational repression and last week, I introduced a bill with Senators Rubio, Cardin, and Hagerty, a comprehensive bill.

We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters.

I remain concerned that as many as 35 states are not using this block grant funding for stillbirth prevention activities.

the proposed fiscal year 2024 President's Budget addresses a lot of the concerns and challenges we have with the recruitment and retention.