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I am concerned that the urgency of the climate crisis is being co-opted by extractive industries to repeat harmful forms of development.

Well, we know that these funds that Congress provided through the American Rescue Plan have indeed made significant strides to help states improve their UI systems by detecting and preventing fraud, promoting equitable access, and ensuring…

However, Republicans routinely appropriate less than what is needed to fund the state workload.

Well, one thing is clear. There has not been full funding on helping the states deal with the UI workload...

Inflation, record high cost, and heavy state regulations are killing small businesses across the state.

The NVRA also empowers Americans to file complaints if an agency has tried to influence a customer's partisan affiliation or voting preference.

The NVRA also authorized other types of nonpartisan voter registration activities.

Helping eligible American citizens register to exercise their right to vote in federal elections is a good thing.

A quarter of our national forests gone, simply gone.

I think it actually saved the city of South Lake Tahoe from the Caldor Fire.

I have been trying to get legislation to the Floor that will extend those policies nationally.

Not because of a lack of resources, but because the laws that have been adopted in the 1970s make it cost prohibitive.

The Federal forests are absolutely decrepit. Again, one quarter of them destroyed. Yet, we lose money.

And we agree that about a quarter of those forests have now been destroyed by these policies.

The investments made possible from those funding bills have allowed the Biden administration to support sustainable management and restoration

I think that is a very strong return on investment for the appropriations that you all have received.

This is unprecedented, and should be indisputable affirmation that climate change is affecting our public lands.

I would like to offer my sincere gratitude for the work that you and your agency do each and every day.