The Conservancy is concerned about the increasing impacts of wildfire suppression funding on Interior funding levels and urges the subcommittee to adopt a bipartisan fire funding solution.

You have an obligation, the both of you.

They were harming people.

Can you commit today that you are going to work on that and make sure that we are getting the data that we need?

There are places where we want to keep roads open----

Under Secretary Bonnie, I know that you are well aware, and so is the whole Committee, that Congress, unfortunately, is a bit gridlocked on the Forest Service wildfire budget situation.

These kids can't help any of those certification or verification problems. They are not responsible for the waste and issues that you addressed.

making healthful school meals accessible to low-income families is a priority for your agency

this significant increase, I believe, will result in eligible low-income children being, quite frankly, kicked off the lunch program.

How many staff have been held accountable? How many retrainings have you had? How many water tests are you doing?

And as both sides try to tackle this problem, because our real issue here is to figure out how we prevent it from happening ever again and, secondly, what we can do about restoring faith to the--our constituents who don't believe either of…

What do we do so that everybody sitting here today is clear that when there is a warning signal, no matter how small--and here, they weren't small. They were not small. They were huge.

How do I do that, sir?

I was right. I went down there and got it myself.

there is a serious critical difference between the response of Governor Snyder and the response of Governor Kasich.

what we all want is good and effective government. And for me it is irrelevant whether that good and effective protective government is at the Federal level, at the State level, or the local level.

we have a terrible end result. We have people drinking unsafe water.

Madam President, I rise today to remember a great New Mexican and a great American, Dr. Miguel Encinias, who passed away on Saturday, February 20, at the age of 92. New Mexico has a long and proud tradition of military service. Dr…