the price of a new car is a whopping $48,000, and even used car prices average around $26,500.

Decisions made by CEQ have real impacts on American families, and it is time to face those facts.

We have lower greenhouse emissions, stringent labor laws, yet continually seek to move the goal posts, which results in nothing more than outsourcing our resources needs to countries that routinely violate human rights laws.

Time and time again, we have seen President Biden abuse executive authority to promote his radical eco-agenda created by academics and social activists.

USDA plays a critical role in representing the interests of farmers, foresters, and rural communities.

Let me be absolutely clear. I do not believe that you are responsible for this specific issue.

It might be the Southern. Is it your position that if there is any copper or nickel or cobalt mined in Superior National Forest, that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is over as we know it today?

It needs to start with mining, though. We need that ore, and this is an opportunity to extract that ore domestically.

You can't even go through the process because it has been usurped by an activist administration.

About 3 years is what I understand.

But we have an administrative state that tries to usurp the will of Congress, which, really, if you can tell, probably gets under my skin.

when the cost of sportsmen's activities go up, participation goes down.

unless you have the science clearly in hand, you must not promulgate regulations that will lead to the guaranteed loss of hunters and anglers from the landscape.

sportsmen and women contribute hundreds of millions of dollars each year to wildlife conservation through the Pittman-Robinson and Dingell-Johnson programs.

I would probably propose to call it RAHA, Restoring America's Habitat Act, because that will do more to restore wildlife than anything else.

I am adamantly opposed to blanket lead bans on national wildlife refuges, and I think it is going to hurt the system.

I hope that after today's hearing, Members on both sides of our dais will consider co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation.

If we don't clear out these hazardous fuels, it is not an exaggeration to say, as the video said, the giant sequoias could disappear in our lifetime.