I have often said that I am not going to the Everglades until they get rid of those pythons down there because those will swallow you alive.

I want to make it very clear. The Republicans are asking for negotiations on the debt ceiling process, to add some fiscal restraint into the debt ceiling extension.

I encourage your Department, Mr. Secretary, to focus on our shared goals, from cost-cutting competition to sustainable telehealth access.

We got through a whole hearing without talking about quagga mussels. I just had to throw that term out there.

We must reorient American foreign policy to be rooted in supporting democracy and human rights, which serve our long-term interests.

You cannot by force take another country's territory.

the worst thing you can do for sequestration is to burn that tree.

As a Western member of Congress, fire is far too familiar to the communities in my home State of Idaho and across the West.

We have heard from Tribes about how increasing the pay of Federal employees only further exacerbates the hiring and retention problems for Tribal firefighters.

Yeah. As you know, we don't want to be forced into a position where all of a sudden that, because of the annual appropriation process, you are going to have to lay off a couple thousand people or something like that.

Additionally, we have heard from Tribes about how increasing the pay of Federal employees only further exacerbates the hiring and retention problems for Tribal firefighters.

If you talk to most economists, they will tell you a large part of the reason we have inflation is because of the excessive, and I mean, excessive spending that we have done over the last several years.

Moving along, I want to talk about the outcompete China initiative, which I think we are all in agreement on as far as objective is concerned.

Access to capital is one of the most significant hurdles facing small businesses as they start and grow, especially in our current economic environment.

Our unity of purpose with our democratic allies and partners against Putin's illegal war is critical and goes far beyond Ukraine's borders.

It is like Tribes of the training grounds for everybody, and if they can get a job at a higher pay, then they go.

As long as we can keep the States and the private landowners and the Federal Government working together to preserve sage grouse habitat, I think we will get further ahead.

We need enforcement dollars to hold bad actors, like Norfolk Southern, accountable. They created the mess. We have to make sure that they clean it up.