I hope we can keep this hearing focused on the substance. I hope we can keep it focused on what our tribal leaders have told us.

I think this is a Catch-22, but I also think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

We have nothing. In my opinion, we have nothing to go out there and campaign on. It's embarrassing.

Regardless of whether they are a cartel or a local mom-and-pop organization trying to contaminate their own damn communities, deadly drugs on Indian reservations are horrible.

A few months ago, before this very Subcommittee, tribal leaders bravely spoke about death threats, yes, death threats, they received from the international criminal cartels.

How can we sit back and watch this dereliction of duty?

When are we going to do something about this?

Mr. President, I stand here today, yet again, as the border crisis continues to devastate my State. On February 7, I stood here, angry that rank partisanship tanked the single most important piece of border security and immigration…

Yes. On the economic side, we call it knock-off effects, second-degree, third-degree effects. In some ways, they are not even that. They are just the principal effects.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to remember U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Eugene D. Santarelli, who passed away on September 21, 2023, at 79 years old. Lieutenant General Santarelli was a highly decorated three-star general who commenced…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Dr. Harris for joining me, and I yield back. ____________________

Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 21 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 10 a.m…

How can you justify prioritizing conservation spreading over ensuring equitable compensation for states like Arizona?

Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the University of Arizona baseball team for clinching the PAC-12 conference championship after defeating Oregon State. The Wildcats lost their first two games and were in a must-win game on…

In reality, many counties that I represent have way too much Federal land.

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor and recognize a group of talented Cochise College art students for the mural they painted in the city of Sierra Vista. The mural depicts the beauty of the San Pedro River and the wildlife in Cochise…

Mr. Speaker, in the mid-20th century, the United States Government conducted nuclear weapons development tests in the Southwest, exposing thousands of Arizonans downwind of the test site to ionized radiation from the fallout. Women, men…

The deck is stacked against operators that receive an adverse ruling through your agencies.