The Summer Food Service Program needs to be modernized to include flexibility in the congregate meals requirement.

Our children are not something that we should ever give up on.

Nobody has done a better job during the pandemic than you all have, and before the pandemic.

I look forward to working with Chairwoman Stabenow and the other members of the Committee to produce a bipartisan child nutrition bill this year.

The VA has well-established grant programs like the Supportive Service for Veterans Families----

The issue veteran suicide is of utmost importance to this Committee, and the Hannon Act sets a new landmark for veterans' mental health care.

The intent was to empower community organizations as quickly as possible to find veterans in the community.

Our friends on the left always want to go straight to gun control as the solution. Why don`t we look at why this violence has increased to begin with? Notably, there has been extended, systematic attacks on our police and law enforcement…

What we want to do is help you cut through the bureaucracy.

Washington also doesn't have the 'diversity of interests and financial independence' that Madison explained were necessary for a well-functioning state.

Would you trust Mayor Bowser to keep Washington safe if she were given the powers of a governor? Would you trust Marion Barry?

we can be proud of the bipartisan work the Senate has accomplished in recent years to expand veterans' benefits. Last Congress, we made significant progress with passage of legislation to enhance education, pensions, burial compensation…

The Republican party has historically been, and I believe is still today, the voice for those who have no voice. We value life and believe all people should be treated with dignity. I appreciate the gentleman from Texas for leading this…

I have proposed proactive natural solutions like the Trillion Trees Act that would restore our forest, promote reforestation, promote innovation, and promote market-based solutions for wood products.

we have got to produce more of our rare earth minerals here, in the United States, to fuel our green economy.

From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually.

We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon.

They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source.