We can do lots of good for the environment while we are building up our capacity to mine in space.

Even if we are not worried about mining it for 50 years, we will have just signed off the future because we didn't deal with it today.

the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to dismantle critical parts of our infrastructure.

I want to make clear that the gentleman from Louisiana, even though he looks like a duck commander, he is not a duck commander, but he does enjoy the outdoors. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, which is based on a user…

it is just mind boggling that we are actually having to have a hearing to talk about pushing back on the administration that is trying to tear out green energy from the Pacific Northwest.

Our commitment to Ukraine demonstrates the credibility of the commitments we make all around the world.

It is not just the United States that has been supplying Ukraine. Our European allies have provided a tremendous amount.

In the Indo-Pacific area, moving from the immediate fights, with Japan and Korea, we are putting in place an ability to do trilateral shared early warning.

Ukraine is fighting NATO's and America's battle. They are facing a threat from Russia, from Moscow, Putin, that is the same threat that we decided over 75 years ago we were going to stand up against.

Broadly, the industrial base is strong, but there are weaknesses, as we have seen, in particular areas.

I would like to take a few moments to recognize Maj. Allen ``Sig'' Black who has worked in my Senate office this year as a defense fellow. Major Black is a patriot who has served our country nobly and made it a safer and better place. It…

I'm passionate about conserving trees, particularly when it comes to national treasures like our Giant Sequoias.

I urge you to prioritize it in the upcoming farm bill reauthorization.

I appreciate the work that the Agriculture Committee has done to address forestry issues.

Yes, and if we want to put solar panels in, let's not clear-cut forests to put solar panels in.

I noticed that a big, mature forest that it was private land. Somebody had apparently sold that, they clear-cut it.

Instead of bearing the brunt of Federal mismanagement, tribes should be looked at as models of ways we can improve the health and resiliency of our Federal forests.

I thank the gentlelady from New Mexico for setting up my question so well by talking about the Tribal Forest Protection Act and the Good Neighbor Authority.