These cuts would undermine the progress and advancements our workforce system has made in the past few years.

I am concerned that this administration will undercut a tried and proven model.

So it is about recognizable credentials.

Tonight we are all team Scalise.

The media has reported that the administration will unveil a new apprenticeship program that will allow Federal dollars to flow essentially to unregistered apprenticeship programs.

So South Carolina runs their Apprenticeship Carolina model through State community colleges and all of your 16 community colleges are engaged in the development and implementation of these programs.

I come from an area on the central coast of California that, unfortunately, suffered the most expensive wildfire in our Nation's history this last year, the Soberanes Fire.

I am deeply concerned that we do have to be cognizant that, with 80 countries that we cannot agree to extradition with...

Well, I join with the gentlelady in making the belief that, until it is clear, crystal clear, it would be a fool's errand to create a situation in which companies would be damned if they do and damned if they do not.

Ronald Reagan then led this country to peace with the Soviet Union.

It is hard to believe that the climate can be so precise as to know exactly the property line between the private and the public lands.

Our Federal forests are in grave danger.

we managed our national forests according to well-established and time-tested forest management practices.

The management of the public lands is our responsibility.

I don't claim to have the market cornered on good ideas. If any of my friends across the aisle... can present a better way to manage our forests... please present your ideas.

If we truly want clean air, clean water, better wildlife habitat, more biodiversity, thriving rural communities... then we will pass this bill as quickly as possible in the House.

For 40 years, we have experimented with laws that have proven disastrous to the health of our forests.

Thank you very much for your testimony. And we will be happy to provide them for you, beginning right now.