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As Senator Merkley highlighted, the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations Program, also known as PL-566, has been especially beneficial.

Senator Merkley has been a champion of this effort in central Oregon, and I'm grateful that he's leading a bipartisan effort.

Agencies should be forced to consider all costs along with benefits of each rule.

The certification is being abused, the 605(b) certification. Agencies are abusing that to try and get out of having to perform small business impact analyses that the RFA requires.

I think there are a couple of steps that I would recommend. First, agencies must be forced to consider the indirect costs of the regulations on small businesses.

It is reasonable to assess that Israel has used U.S. provided weapons in instances inconsistent with international humanitarian law.

I applaud your and the President's efforts to condemn Hamas' invasion on October 7, to secure a ceasefire, and to secure the release of hostages.

Unfortunately, the proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget cuts to ocean research could have real impacts on NOAA's work in Oregon for ocean health.

I just want to say a couple of words about how important it is that we get back into our forests.

We should prioritize Federal water investments that protect, preserve, and optimize our over-exploited water supplies instead of big, controversial projects.

I think your Department is drunk on money, I think you are drunk on power, and I think we have to wheel it back.

There is little disagreement on the fact that you do have billions and billions and billions of dollars to spend.

I want those permits renewed.

I want to be abundantly clear. Representative Bentz and I share Roseburg as a district... It is vitally important that that stay in the WOOP.

The entire Oregon Delegation, Democrats and Republicans, have made it very clear and signed letters to say that we want the WOOP to remain in place.

It seems to be the exact opposite of, shall we say, any extractive activity.

The president is right to withhold those weapons. He is right to speak about this publicly, and he's right to draw the line on the invasion of Rafah.

The U.S. does have leverage and certainly the administration is to be praised in several ways that they have been working very hard sending every high government official.