Climate change is not just coming. It's here.

Finally, as the Ranking Member noted, there is an elephant in the room: climate change.

Every DOI decision cannot be popular with everyone. But I submit that an unpopular decision is not evidence of natural resources laws gone astray.

We don't want to hurt people's eardrums, we don't want to destroy the habitat that we are trying to function in right now.

Secretary Zinke's effort to give away even more public land to the oil industry under the guise of 'energy dominance' is eyebrow-raising.

Well, certainly it is partly because the state has set renewable goals and it is partly because I think the consumers are clamoring for it as well.

That is not the focus, at least, for right now.

Lastly, Trumpcare's proposed cuts to Medicaid, if enacted, will devastate services for students with disabilities and undermine state and local efforts to educate all students to high standards, as required by ESSA.

Elimination of Title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and state efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports - defunding this program most certainly does not align with the bipartisan…

Elimination of title II-A would result in thousands of layoffs and inhibit local and State efforts to improve teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader supports.

Over 35,000 Americans lost their lives, one every 15 minutes. This is the largest increase over a 1-year period in 50 years of recordkeeping.

Graduation rates started increasing. As a result, since 2000, 2.8 million more kids have graduated.

If we had just continued to do what we knew is the right things to invest in 30 years ago for the past 30 years, we wouldn't have an achievement gap.

We need to provide a workforce for global economy that is changing at warp speed.

ESSA is not - and never has been - a free for all, and it is the responsibility of the Department, as articulated by Congress in ESSA, to carefully scrutinize the quality of state plans and only approve those that meet the law's…

Despite promises to implement the law as Congress intended, Secretary DeVos and President Trump proposed the elimination of bedrock ESEA programs.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to mourn the passing of the Chinese human rights advocate and Nobel Prize Laureate, Liu Xiaobo, who died last Thursday in China, under guard. The world has lost an incomparably courageous advocate who was…

This is another band-aid approach to figuring out how can we make medications more affordable.