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Thank you. Mr. Treharne, I wanted to ask you about, I mentioned in my opening statement, President Biden's America the Beautiful Initiative, or 30 by 30, which sets a goal of conserving 30 percent of U.S. lands and water by the year 2030.

Included in the ACE Act was the Chesapeake Watershed Investment for Landscape Defense, Chesapeake WILD, Act, which created a new $15 million grant program within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to support habitat restoration in the Bay…

I think that is a good point. I think, in some ways, where we have kind of gotten hung up a little bit on this is, a lot of times, I think our local landowners and our folks who have been in the communities for years really are the best…

We urge you to join us in calling for the bipartisan reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act through regular order. We can do this. We must do this.

Can you guarantee me that the Biden plan will lower global emissions to less than 350 parts per million?

Look, to reduce global CO2, the administration has been calling for zero-carbon emissions from American power plants by 2035.

Is enough progress being made to confront these challenges, and how do you plan to address the challenges if you are confirmed?

We have to follow the laws as written by Congress.

How in the world would do something in a partisan way right now when there’s so much animosity and so much disbelief? So, we have to bring it together. And John Lewis Voting Right Act says no matter who you are, no matter what color of…

Our Nation's transportation system faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people's safety, security, and privacy.

What is being done to address the threat of cyber-attacks on our existing nation's infrastructure?

These same weaknesses were documented by the Congressional Research Service in 2012, and yet nothing has been done.

This is deeply troubling.

I am glad that the White House announced two days ago that it was forming an interagency task force in response to the Colonial ransomware attack.

In my state, we have more federal lands than any other state in the country.

I am a little concerned about the approach that the Administration has taken with this--30 by 30 sounds pretty great.

I believe the new Administration has the right and the responsibility to take a pause and evaluate how these energy programs are working.

I think it is a good place for bipartisanship. That is what I am thinking, if we work together.