This has been a team effort and I want to thank Senator Cantwell for being here.
The existing 394,000 acre Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a treasure both in Washington state and across the country.
Today we are here to discuss the opportunity to permanently protect additional lands near the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
it is disappointing that we have to fight the administration year after year after year to meet those legal obligations.
It is a legal obligation. It is a moral obligation. It is a real obligation.
I am concerned that this administration does not seem to take these legal obligations seriously.
Mr. Secretary, in your oral testimony you mentioned the need to find ways to do business better when referring to Environmental Management.
if the administration intends to move forward with the proposed modified funding profile for the waste treatment plant, the only successful ...
I mandate that the transition assistance program become mandatory for all service members.
It is a cost to society as well as a cost to the services.
I am startled by the rapidly increasing cost of unemployment insurance.
I recently introduced The Hiring Heroes Act to start to address how we can better transition our service members.
We should benefit from it.
I think we have got a lot of soldiers transitioning and a few months means a few hundred more soldiers who are getting left behind.
I absolutely agree that more needs to be done to meet the mental health needs of veterans.
We have got to keep focusing on this because these are real families that are struggling.
Something is not working when we have this high number.
I am very concerned about the high number of suicides, as I just said; but knowing that, we need to double our efforts with the soldiers who...
