As I have committed to you and I commit here today to your colleagues, we will not seek waivers from those provisions unless we get to the most extraordinary circumstance that we have plumbed the depths throughout our economy to create…

I share the concern expressed by the chair on these mega-projects.

the importance of making sure that these dollars that are ultimately coming from taxpayers, Federal or State, go to create American jobs.

the high-speed rail program is under construction, it is having dramatic effects immediately in California in an area that has suffered historic underinvestment in our State.

Employee surveys rank it at the bottom.

I am going to, we are going to, push a lot of resources back where they belong, out of the middle and upper management, and back on the front line.

I believe Pinchot's maxim was the greatest good for the greatest number of people in the long run.

I want the rangers to be number one, period, the best job in the world, as it should be.

My opinion, as a former SEAL commander, is that our front line, that is people that are out there with our parks and wildlife refuges, we are too short in the front line and we are too heavy in middle and upper management.

I just want to acknowledge that and tell you how much it was appreciated from the rank and file and the general public.

What can we do about that?

My point is that the projects were actually approved, for the most part, prior to the Obama administration.

Mr. Chair, I am pleased to be here today in strong support of H.R. 1873, the Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act. As we enter wildfire season, it is of the upmost importance that the federal government act to prevent these…

In order to maintain the same levels of services and prevent the expiration of these surge grants, the SSVF program would need up to $80 million more in fiscal year 2018 than the Department requested.

Much of what comes from the Trump White House is not true, but the President's 2018 budget tells us the truth.

The budget reflects Republican's constant attacks on science and repeated claims that climate change is fake.

The budget reflects the bottomless desire for irresponsible drilling and mining on every inch of public land.

This budget reflects the Republican belief that this generation of politicians gets to decide which species go extinct.