I first want to thank Professor--I mean Senator Whitehouse for the information he shared. It was compelling, important, and very worthy of our deep consideration. To talk about renewing the Magnuson-Stevens Act without talking about the…

I really take issue with your statement about ARPA-E and energy research.

I too rise to speak in opposition to this amendment. The NEA and the NEH have strong, bipartisan support on this committee, and I had really hoped the days of attacking these agencies were behind us. Maybe they seem like a good political…

While I appreciate the request made is intended to correct an inadvertent drafting error, I am concerned that granting the gentleman's request would legitimize a double standard being applied to unanimous consent requests here on the House…

Reserving the right to object. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Maine is recognized on her reservation.

I thank Ranking Member Lowey for yielding me the time. Madam Chair, I rise today as a member of the subcommittee in reluctant opposition to the bill before us. I want to thank the ranking member and the chairman for their hard work on this…

I think the biggest concern is that the interpretation and the inefficiencies with federal agencies and their inconsistencies on how they interpret NEPA and how they allow, as they go through the process, are entirely different from forest…

So that is an opportunity that also has to be considered as we are looking for options here.

So if we are talking about legislative solutions to this problem, we should really narrow the focus to those minerals, not all import dependent materials, minerals, but those minerals that come from a source that is at risk for some reason.

I wanted Maine to have the most stringent environmental laws in the country and the most predictable and timely environmental process.

I think that what some folks are concerned about is that this will be, kind of, a Trojan horse for opening up regulation of mining, generally, of any mineral, not necessarily a critical mineral.

It seems to me there are perverse conflicts of interest in the way this whole system works, in addition to a lack of transparency.

It was very unfortunate that the Ranking Member... chose to block those bills.

I am gravely concerned about an exponential increase in the export of natural gas and LNG.

But are they? The New England pipeline proposal was that the ratepayers of all of New England would take that risk.

Ensuring that more Americans are better prepared financially for retirement is one of my top priorities. That is why I rise today to introduce the SIMPLE Plan Modernization Act with my colleague from Virginia, Senator Mark Warner. Our…

But on the electrical transmission side, if it goes in at the rate base, the ratepayers are taking that risk.

I thank Chairman Young very much for this opportunity to be here. Mr. Chairman, ``Maine is Vacationland.'' Everybody in the country and everybody on this floor should know that. In fact, Mr. Chairman, we put ``vacationland'' on our license…