While this Administration seems content to just throw money at a problem and call it a day, we know oversight is essential to ensure each taxpayer dollar is spent responsibly.

I hope to hear from you on what this Administration's plan is moving forward to provide American workers with certainty, reduce permitting roadblocks, and help us build right here at home.

I have significant concerns about these proposals, starting with the fact that the Biden administration has yet to provide transparency on the staggering amount of money it has already allocated to Federal agencies.

What is the Department doing to ensure equal competition in the early MILCON process, particularly to ensure mass timber is considered?

Well, that's important and we do need to help. Maybe we can help think outside the box.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And it is a real pleasure to be with you today, as Ranking Member of this subcommittee for our first MILCON hearing together.

when you create habitat for the woodpecker you create habitat that falls right in line with what the bat likes.

it made absolutely no sense to me that, in the name of protecting the bat, there were actions and talk of stopping forest management.

The root word of conservation is 'conserve.'

if they find the bat on the Federal land, that their forest management is done.

I was born a conservative and a conservationist, Mr. Huffman.

the numbers don't lie, that 24 percent--not quite 25--but of deferred maintenance from the National Park Service went to Speaker Pelosi, former Speaker Pelosi's district.

In total, the National Park Service spent more than $365 million last year on deferred maintenance in Nancy Pelosi's district.

This $200 million earmark orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi represents a 3,113 percent increase in the amount of Federal funding received by the Presidio last year.

The $200 million for deferred maintenance was an earmark.

There wasn't supposed to be taxpayer dollars.

It is hard to justify all the releases in California.

Today the Biden administration put out a plan on the Colorado system and said that they need to cut 2.1 million acre-feet from the Colorado River.