Thank you, Chairman Murkowski. Just a quick question on our New Mexico monuments, Secretary Jewell.

I was pleased that Congress authorized the Manhattan Project National Historical Park to honor important American scientific and military achievements.

TMCF requests that the subcommittee preserve the original HBCU designated Historic Preservation Fund.

I believe, is an essential tool to protect our Nation's rich, natural and cultural resources.

Can we count on you to make mandatory extension of PILT a personal priority?

As members of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, we are requesting continued support for programs that are essential to maintaining and restoring clean water to the rivers and streams throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.

I want to thank you for your commitment to Tribal programs and for requesting a large increase for Indian education.

I was pleased to see that your budget request includes a 17 percent increase for the National Park Service to prepare for the Centennial.

I support responsible energy development on public lands as part of a 'do it all, do it right' approach to energy policy.

The CLC believes strongly that the USGS GLSC plays a central role in supporting near and long-term initiatives.

This request clearly demonstrates the investments that we can make if Congress and the President work together.

Does this mean that once the current program becomes a program of record and achieves Milestone A it will have the conventional version as part of its requirements for engineering past Milestone B, or will the Air Force come back to it…

Ms. Harrington, you are responsible for maintaining the Department's Emergency Operations Center for nuclear terrorist incidents as well as incidents such as fires and releases of radiation at DOE facilities.

As we watch Pakistan modernize its capability... to contain that piece.

The goal of this legislation is to give business owners and regional academia, even local government greater ability to interface with those resources.

Are we pursuing anything similar to what Israel has developed in the form of their directed energy Iron Beam system to protect against short-range rockets, artillery shells, and mortar bombs?

I later secured an amendment in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizing $15 million for the production of the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system in the United States.

Dr. Klotz, my understanding is that Los Alamos is starting to transfer operations from the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building into PF-4 and the new Radiological Laboratory, Utility and Office Building (RULOB).