let's just release those transcripts so we can all see for ourselves what it is we are dealing with.

The work you and your teams do, often in hostile and dangerous environments, is essential to supporting independent journalism, access to objective reporting, and amplifying American values abroad.

It is not the role of this committee to tell you all what to report and how to report it because that act alone would undermine the credibility, the veracity, and the effectiveness of that information.

I would also like to remind my friends across the aisle that there is a long running list of additional bills-sponsored by members of both parties.

I thank my colleague from Denver for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure and honor to rise today to welcome Representative Greg Lopez to Congress. I have every faith that Representative Lopez will serve the people of Colorado's Fourth…

It is imperative that we continue to identify new places worthy of recognition, while bolstering our protection of those that have already been identified.

First and foremost, my gratitude to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Lee), my distinguished colleague, for her leadership on this particular issue, her leadership in the Colorado River Caucus over the course of these last several years as…

As members of the Federal Lands Subcommittee, we collectively have the opportunity to champion new conservation opportunities.

This hearing continues a promising trend of considering more conservation and commemorative bills.

This is the sacred land of the Miccosukee, this is our home, this is our responsibility.

I think we need to be willing to support experiments that are going to fail.

I think that program has got a lot of potential.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott) for the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Mr. NEGUSE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I know Mr. Scott to be an intellectually honest debater and Member, and I wonder maybe perhaps he will indulge me in a bit of a colloquy because I take him at his word that he believes that we have a crisis on the southern border. Mr…

I want to thank Senators Bennet and Marshall for hosting this and for looking beyond bipartisan lines.

What can we do to help move this forward, do you think?

What can we do to help move this forward, do you think?

In the last few seconds that I have--take your time, Mr. Sayles--but you ended your testimony with such a hopeful sense of what the future could bring.