Protecting our environment doesn't have to be bad for business, and I think our witnesses proved today that that is certainly not the case in places like Maine and Minnesota and a lot of others.
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We shouldn't build a public school in Maine that doesn't have also some kind of biomass boiler or something built into it.
I know in Maine, we are really looking at policies that could turn our State into a bit of an energy island...
The lobster industry has taken a big hit, and weaponization of the courts is, I think, the perfect way to put it.
Congress must work in bipartisan fashion to help better serve the forestry industry.
Any estimate at all on what the actual eligibility demand would look like if every logging contractor that needed help ended up getting some?
One bill out there, H.R. 2612, the RESTORE Act, introduced by my friend, Congressman Doug LaMalfa of California.
I look forward to hearing from our witnesses about how policies can be put together here in Congress that will help them to be successful businesses.
One of the obstacles, as I see it, to wildfire risk reduction is the lack of markets for small diameter wood.
I really appreciate the fact that you bring so many years of experience and understanding into this job.
I think it was clear from the testimony today that the military, or at least the two Generals that were in front of us believe that maintaining some presence in Afghanistan would be a good idea. The President obviously rejected that advice.
What is unforgivable is that there are so many Republicans who are willing to turn away to not look at the facts of what the former President did, how he stoked an insurrection.
What President Trump did, a former president was not conservative. That was radical, that was row, that was undermining democracy and trying to overthrow our constitutional government.
Protecting this right is important to me.
The Texas law is extreme and harmful, I oppose the court's decision to allow the law to remain in effect for now while these underlying constitutional and procedural questions are litigated.
Legal abortion is safe in this country in a permanent way.
Republican senators like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said they were quite sure, they were convinced that all these Trump nominees to the Supreme Court certainly recognize Roe versus Wade as settled precedent.