while we are awaiting others to come to the Senate floor, let me express my deep sorrow about learning of the deaths of two more police officers who responded to safeguard all of us in the Capitol on January 6. My heart goes out to their…

the government cannot counter the CCP's actions all by itself.

Execution is as important as vision.

I hope that you will commit to absolute transparency and clarity about the administration of the Great American Outdoors Act.

I want to be Winston Churchill, not Neville Chamberlain.

Science must lead us out of this crisis.

let me begin my remarks this evening by expressing my appreciation to Senators Portman and Sinema for their extraordinary leadership of our group, our bipartisan group, of 10 Senators, who have labored so hard to bring before the Senate…

I rise to speak of a friend and colleague whom we lost this week. Mike Enzi, a Senator from Wyoming, retired from this body in January of this year when his successor was seated but served here honorably for several decades. I think the…

The law of supply and demand doesn't apply here. The demand is there but we can't just go out and build more Glacier Parks.

Can we think about that policy in terms of promoting the lesser-used national parks?

The green mountain is the visitation at Yellowstone. The red dotted line is staff levels.

Does that have a feature like Waze, the app that tells you where the congestion is?

And by the way, it would be nice if it were in multiple languages.

we want visitation to our national parks, but we do not want the visitation itself to impair the experience of the national parks, or the park itself.

Thank you. I think the result of what you are saying is that more study is necessary to examine unintended consequences.

The 2015 act had overwhelming bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Obama.

I thank the chairwoman for yielding the time. I thank her and Ranking Member Granger for their leadership on this committee. I rise to support the fiscal year 2022 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. I also…

Within the Department of the Interior, the bill invests $4 billion in Indian Affairs programs, including an additional $180 million to address climate change impacts. For Indian Health Services, the bill provides an additional $1.9 billion…