the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to dismantle critical parts of our infrastructure.

We can do lots of good for the environment while we are building up our capacity to mine in space.

Our commitment to Ukraine demonstrates the credibility of the commitments we make all around the world.

Broadly, the industrial base is strong, but there are weaknesses, as we have seen, in particular areas.

It is not just the United States that has been supplying Ukraine. Our European allies have provided a tremendous amount.

In the Indo-Pacific area, moving from the immediate fights, with Japan and Korea, we are putting in place an ability to do trilateral shared early warning.

Ukraine is fighting NATO's and America's battle. They are facing a threat from Russia, from Moscow, Putin, that is the same threat that we decided over 75 years ago we were going to stand up against.

I noticed that a big, mature forest that it was private land. Somebody had apparently sold that, they clear-cut it.

Yes, and if we want to put solar panels in, let's not clear-cut forests to put solar panels in.

I'm passionate about conserving trees, particularly when it comes to national treasures like our Giant Sequoias.

I urge you to prioritize it in the upcoming farm bill reauthorization.

I appreciate the work that the Agriculture Committee has done to address forestry issues.

Instead of bearing the brunt of Federal mismanagement, tribes should be looked at as models of ways we can improve the health and resiliency of our Federal forests.

It also shows that tribal forest management shouldn't be an area of partisan division, but rather, bipartisan compromise.

I thank the gentlelady from New Mexico for setting up my question so well by talking about the Tribal Forest Protection Act and the Good Neighbor Authority.

the investments that were secured by House Democrats and President Biden in the last Congress were a downpayment, a downpayment.

Thank you again, Chairman Tiffany, and thank you to the witnesses.

Earlier this year, the House unanimously passed the Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act.