You recognized the growth of the number of women veterans seeking care in the VA, which has more than tripled over the last 20 years.

Can you touch on how the implementation for the SERVICE Act is going, and are there any challenges that you are facing that we can be helpful with you?

This was intended to simply add new funding to cleanup efforts, not overhaul a program that has been working well since the 1970s.

The record we create today will support the mission and work of this Committee to ensure that U.S. citizens and our locally self-governing U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands benefit and prosper under…

Their sacrifices highlight why it is a strategic imperative to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific.

We need to remember that those U.S. lands in the Pacific, including the-then U.S. territories of Hawaii and the Philippines, were directly attacked and in some cases occupied by an aspiring imperialist dictatorship attempting to conquer…

The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies willing to mine those deposits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.

If you really claim to utilize the best science, why is BLM proposing to fundamentally change the way we manage these forests on flawed science?

If you care about clean air and clean water, you should care about forest management.

I hope everybody in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle can come together this Congress so we can enact real change.

Secretary Haaland said there were 20. Can you get that list for us?

Thank you, Chairman Hageman, and also thank you to the witnesses for being here today as we convene to take testimony from expert witnesses on the preservation of U.S. critical interests in the Pacific Islands and, more broadly, the…

If you go back to Teddy Roosevelt, he said that conservation means development as much as protection.

We have asked for that information, and nobody has been able to provide it so far.

I think the Forest Service has to create some credibility, and it has to be long-term commitments like the 20-year stewardship contract if you ever want to get that industry back.

How many more of these Paradise, California-style fires must occur before we actually do the right thing and start taking preventative measures?

My idea of conservation is you use it and leave it better for future generations.

Conservation should be throughout all of the uses on BLM land.