"If you care about clean air and clean water, you should care about forest management."
"We should be looking at what is causing these fires, not just how do we spend more money to pay firefighters."
"How many more of these Paradise, California-style fires must occur before we actually do the right thing and start taking preventative measures?"
"I hope everybody in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle can come together this Congress so we can enact real change."
"the U.S. compacts with the FAS countries are a balance of extraordinary security and defense right and strategic stability secured for the United States, and extraordinary economic gains and stability..."
"Their sacrifices highlight why it is a strategic imperative to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific."
"The record we create today will support the mission and work of this Committee to ensure that U.S. citizens and our locally self-governing U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Ma..."
"Thank you, Chairman Hageman, and also thank you to the witnesses for being here today as we convene to take testimony from expert witnesses on the preservation of U.S. critical interests in the Pacifi..."
"We need to remember that those U.S. lands in the Pacific, including the-then U.S. territories of Hawaii and the Philippines, were directly attacked and in some cases occupied by an aspiring imperialis..."
"The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies willing to mine those deposits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920."
"This was intended to simply add new funding to cleanup efforts, not overhaul a program that has been working well since the 1970s."
"We have asked for that information, and nobody has been able to provide it so far."
"My idea of conservation is you use it and leave it better for future generations."
"In 1995, we produced over 3 times more copper than China. Today, they produce about 11 times more copper than we do."
"We have an administrative state that tries to usurp the will of Congress, which, really, if you can tell, probably gets under my skin."
"So, if you are below ground in the mine, can water flow up to the Boundary Waters from there?"
"And that needs to be verified. And we need to apply lessons that have been developed through industry."
"It is not like we have a choice to go somewhere where there is not copper ore, or cobalt, or nickel and build a mine because you are not going to find any there."
