Critical race theory is the false and the odious theory that America is fundamentally racist to its core.

Active forest management, including prescribed fire and mechanical treatments, is critical to decreasing the frequency and scope of these events and protecting the overall health of our forests.

We must ensure foresters and landowners are able to operate with certainty, predictability, and transparency.

Any raise in the capital gains tax is going to go hard against family forest landowners.

This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. This is just the history of what we've encountered.

I'm not attacking you. I'm attacking the system.

To be resilient first requires that our national resources, infrastructure and installations be hardened against threats, both natural and manmade.

I want you to tell those at the VA that I am very concerned about a bill that we are going to have this week.

Resilience is a particularly timely topic given the ongoing national discussion concerning the important vulnerability of our nation's critical infrastructure.

We will work this out. We will work together.

Without additional investment in MILCON, we cannot adequately address all of these requirements.

This is a contract that we have signed with our veterans, and we want to give them the benefits they and their families deserve.

We need a score. We need the VA to weigh in. This is major stuff.

I introduced H.R. 8489, the PRICE Act (Price Reform In Cattle Economics Act), which has a number of things related to transparency.

I just want to make sure that we understand this has got to be something we address at the Committee level.

The first is H.R. 2477, the 'Urban Forests Act of 2021,' a bipartisan bill introduced by Representative Malliotakis.

The 2018 Farm Bill was the greenest farm bill in history.

Studies show planting and restoring one trillion trees globally would sequester 205 gigatons of carbon.