It is fiscally responsible to give USGS the necessary funding and to hold it to account.

having dedicated funding that they can rely on... will help to build sustainable, long-term programming.

I think one of the concerns is, without the kind of work that you are doing, without digging into that research, we can't accurately count how many wildlife-related cases there are.

Taxpayers deserve to know that their money is being spent effectively.

We've unfortunately all learned that late detection can cost lives.

Congress provides far less funding for the Department of the Interior to monitor diseases in wildlife than it does for the Department of Agriculture to monitor diseases in domesticated animals.

Madam Speaker, I rise today on behalf of David Lin who, has been imprisoned in China since 2006 on charges of contract fraud. Although the Chinese Government has reduced David's sentence, the fact remains that David has been separated from…

The point of disclosure is you put these disclosures out there, you put them out there and then the ethics experts, the American people, the FDA administrator, they decide whether or not there`s a conflict of interest.

The reason for that is that oversight is a key congressional function.

I think that`s my job, is to hold power to account. It`s to say, on behalf of the American people this doesn`t cut it.

If we want to control outbreaks of wildlife-borne disease, we have to be able to see them.

Those same experts are now telling us that two of the biggest drivers of risk from wildlife-borne diseases are climate change and the frequency of interactions between wildlife and people.

We are here today to discuss a topic with consequences we all know too well: the threat of wildlife-borne diseases becoming pandemics.

Your detainers for homicides are down 42 percent.

You're either accepting the Biden Administration--and if that's the case, then you should be impeached.

Under your administration with more agents and judges you have deported only 59,000.

You have assured us that ICE prioritizes criminal removals.

How does this benefit Americans?