How is DHS assisting these affected communities in Montana now, and how can your department provide support in the coming months as we deal with additional flooding, as well as, believe it or not, the upcoming wildfire season?

We are facing severe flooding due to rapidly melting snowpack in our mountains, combined with some recent heavy rainfall.

I think the spouses also play a critical role on this.

I used to think that was old. I do not anymore.

This concludes the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee hearing regarding fiscal year 2019 funding for the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police.

Is anything being done to take care of the time away from families, which would--this would require?

The new National Defense Strategy focuses heavily on preparing for the possibility of a near-peer threat.

We are talking about living up to our trust responsibilities.

I first want to thank you for championing my legislation to repeal this decision first as a Member of the House and now as Secretary of the Interior.

I want to thank you also for your commitment to the Yellowstone Gateway mineral withdrawal.

I want to thank you for visiting the Blackfeet Reservation earlier this year to authorize the first transfer of funds for the Blackfeet water settlement.

I am especially happy to work with you on the National Park Restoration Act to ensure dedicated revenues flow to our National Parks maintenance backlog.

It is time to get the fringe litigators out of the forest and put the loggers back into the forest.

We have at least two pieces of legislation here with bipartisan support.

I thank Senator Udall and Senator Murkowski for the increases in funding in deferred maintenance.

This is the lowest number that we have seen, that I have seen in 11.5 years that I have been here.

These projects will not get done unless there is real money in them.

These ecosystems aren't going to be around in 10 or 20 years.