I am very pleased to see the proposal for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or the Green Bank that EPA is starting to implement.

The funding was provided for this effort in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

please, any extra attention you can give to that Warm Springs project will be much, much appreciated.

Everywhere I go in Oregon I hear people say: Let us do everything we can to make the forest more resilient.

Thank you, Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

we have to bring balance to our forests through collaboration, we need to work across the lines, the divisions of the timber wars of the past.

One of my goals, and I think it is shared by Senator Murkowski, is that we invest on both ends on making our forests healthier and more fire resilient.

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

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

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

I feel strongly that if we want to build a safer, more competitive country, we can't give up on the need to invest right here at home.

A factor aggravating the ferocity of these fires is climate chaos, longer, hotter fire seasons.

We need to double down on other forest management activities critical to forest resilience and forest health.

Do you like that term, tribal sovereignty fees?

DFC has to rethink this strategy doing far more harm than good.

A major driver is a $742 million increase to expand access to health care across all IHS Direct Service lines.

I look forward to learning more about that.

I advocated for and we included in last year's funding bill $7 million for startup funding for the Department to begin consultations with tribes.