Pakistan concluded an agreement with some Taliban elements in the Swat Valley that allowed for full adoption of sharia l...
The war in Afghanistan is one that we can win and that we must win, but for years now we have been fighting without a cl...
If Pakistan's goals are attacking militants and extremists for the sake of their own stability and the benefit of the Pa...
I welcome President Obama's commitment to robustly fund the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, to...
I do not agree with statements by some in the administration that we cannot make progress in Afghanistan without success...
In this challenging fiscal and budgetary environment, we must look hard at every requirement, every development plan, an...
On April 6, 2009, Secretary Gates announced how the fiscal year 2010 defense budget request will reshape the priorities ...
Thank you very much. Let me call the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands to order on a hearing on t...
I think the issue of outreach and how it is done and the importance of that is important and the insular areas and terri...
Much remains to be done on public lands.
I am proud to have the support of preeminent conservation groups, as well as the leading national parks advocacy groups.
Unfortunately, we still face those challenges and more: years of inadequate funding have put these agencies further behi...
Today the Subcommittee will hear testimony on legislation I introduced two weeks ago, along with Chairman Rahall, to hel...
Because of the goodwill of all the parties here, and to some extent the relative simplicity of the issues, this water se...
The tribe, backed by the United States Government, has made claims now to those tributaries, and this settlement settles...
This White Mountain Apache Tribe settlement stands out because ordinarily Indian water rights settlements are very diffi...
We are a Judeo-Christian nation.
In April 2009, the head of the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Plan indicated that it took a total of 3...
