Improved and safer roads can mean a connection to a job or other essentials in a more reasonable, or at least a less unreasonable timeframe.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, again.

It is my hope that we can continue the trend by crafting a reauthorization bill that meets the priorities of North Dakotans and Marylanders alike.

Every single American benefits every single day from good farm policy.

I rise today to talk about how Congress can work together in a bipartisan way to pass infrastructure legislation, following my colleagues from Ohio, from Wyoming, from Iowa--and my colleague from North Carolina is here as well--with a real…

What can we do to make sure that these programs actually are usable to you and to others that are working not only in agriculture, but rural America?

I would ask that for the other witnesses as well, and we could kind of go in the order that you gave testimony.

Good farm policy benefits every American every day.

You know, when you look at the cost of equipment now for our farmers, it is just unbelievable.

Isn't there a value in resuming scheduled lease sales while Interior conducts its review so that we can fully realize the resulting job creation and revenue benefits?

Good to be here with you.

It is truly an honor and a privilege work on behalf of our farmers.

We must strive to uphold our trust and treaty responsibility to this Nation's tribes, and that includes ensuring Indian Country has the resources and tools necessary to provide quality education to students who attend Bureau of Indian…

Do you realize that if you were a mineral owner in North Dakota and you owned the surface acres, but that if you share some of that mineral ownership with federal--with Interior, and Interior has no surface acreage, that your moratorium…

In AMG, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of scam artists and dishonest corporations.

So if we are not able to develop oil and gas resources in this country, will that shift production to countries like Russia and to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela that have lower environmental standards than we do?

Retroactivity is not favored by the law.

I am disappointed it and the other reform bills are not included on the docket today.