I have always found it kind of interesting that our committee, even when I was chair and even before that, we looked at the Arts and Humanit...
If you are going to reach your climate goals, and renewable energy, and those types of things, you can't outstrip our ability to deliver the...
Thank you, Chairwoman Pingree, and thanks for this hearing.
How much of the current $167.5 million in this year's budget goes to local communities and grants to State and local communities in both the...
I look forward to the day when we can actually sit down and talk person-to-person and meet face-to-face and discuss some of these issues.
But basically, we can put all the money into a program in the world. If we don't have the personnel to carry out the projects and so forth t...
the staffing shortage has been an issue across the West, and it has inhibited us from meeting some public lands challenges with the urgency ...
We can't wait two decades. That is somebody is born and they become an adult before we can improve their school, that is just too long.
I am more than willing, and I know members of this committee are also, to figure out how we get to the level that we ought to be at so that ...
If it was mandatory, you would pretty much know what it is going to be the next year.
Indian issues and Indian Country has always been a bipartisan issue on this committee.
I appreciate all the work that you all do and for being here to testify before this committee today.
One thing I wanted to follow up on what Representative Simpson said about the ability to have advanced appropriations versus mandatory fundi...
The Indian Health Service has been underfunded for years, and we have tried to increase it and so forth.
We need to work this out so that we are all on the same page because I am on your side on what you are trying to do here.
I appreciate what you do, and I would love to entertain you out in Idaho.
I do want to thank you for the work that you did in making sure that these local organizations could survive during this pandemic because it...
One of my advocacies is to make sure that we get grants and so forth out to rural communities.
