On April 6, 2009, Secretary Gates announced how the fiscal year 2010 defense budget request will reshape the priorities ...
In this challenging fiscal and budgetary environment, we must look hard at every requirement, every development plan, an...
Thank you very much. Let me call the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands to order on a hearing on t...
I am proud to have the support of preeminent conservation groups, as well as the leading national parks advocacy groups.
Much remains to be done on public lands.
I think the issue of outreach and how it is done and the importance of that is important and the insular areas and terri...
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...
This White Mountain Apache Tribe settlement stands out because ordinarily Indian water rights settlements are very diffi...
The tribe, backed by the United States Government, has made claims now to those tributaries, and this settlement settles...
Because of the goodwill of all the parties here, and to some extent the relative simplicity of the issues, this water se...
In April 2009, the head of the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Plan indicated that it took a total of 3...
We are a Judeo-Christian nation.
Green-collar jobs are here and growing and exist in many of the states of this committee's members.
We've had the political will to pass policies that create the demand for the clean energy economy.
if we have got money to throw at the banks, then we have got money to invest in our students and young people
How can we ensure, or can we do anything to ensure, that China intervenes in Afghanistan in a responsible way?
This is our fourth hearing on Afghanistan in this subcommittee.
