The Summer Food Service Program needs to be modernized to include flexibility in the congregate meals requirement.

I look forward to working with Chairwoman Stabenow and the other members of the Committee to produce a bipartisan child nutrition bill this year.

We need your feedback so that government is helping you with your mission, not getting in the way.

The issue veteran suicide is of utmost importance to this Committee, and the Hannon Act sets a new landmark for veterans' mental health care.

What we want to do is help you cut through the bureaucracy.

The intent was to empower community organizations as quickly as possible to find veterans in the community.

Our friends on the left always want to go straight to gun control as the solution. Why don`t we look at why this violence has increased to begin with? Notably, there has been extended, systematic attacks on our police and law enforcement…

The VA has well-established grant programs like the Supportive Service for Veterans Families----

Washington also doesn't have the 'diversity of interests and financial independence' that Madison explained were necessary for a well-functioning state.

Would you trust Mayor Bowser to keep Washington safe if she were given the powers of a governor? Would you trust Marion Barry?

Mr. President, we can be proud of the bipartisan work the Senate has accomplished in recent years to expand veterans' benefits. Last Congress, we made significant progress with passage of legislation to enhance education, pensions, burial…

Mr. Speaker, the Republican party has historically been, and I believe is still today, the voice for those who have no voice. We value life and believe all people should be treated with dignity. I appreciate the gentleman from Texas for…

From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually.

we have got to produce more of our rare earth minerals here, in the United States, to fuel our green economy.

We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon.

They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source.

Madam President, the Senate is considering the nomination of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Without question, the Senate should reject this nomination. In the…

I have proposed proactive natural solutions like the Trillion Trees Act that would restore our forest, promote reforestation, promote innovation, and promote market-based solutions for wood products.