I just ask that we do something to ensure that our Indian Health Service is adequately funded, which it currently is not.

Modernizing systems across the entirety of the federal government must be a priority.

Forty percent of the fertilizer in this world comes from Belarus and Russia. There's an enormous crisis right now on fertilizer.

We should have been dealing with this decades and decades ago, and I do realize the importance of involving the indigenous community in the decisionmaking.

Failing to extend temporary judgeships across the country... would be harmful to the administration of justice.

I would have to say that America's climate policy should be based on America's resources, innovation, and our ability to compete to reduce global emissions.

The world is really looking for American leadership on this issue.

This is an important bill, because it takes the organization and the power of the State to take action, and to prioritize, and have some oversight over, you know, where the projects that are working, that will work, that will save…

The U.S. has to be in a leadership role.

we need an order of magnitude increase in defense spending on innovation.

Deforestation poses grave global and domestic security risks as well.

I just want to disabuse anyone of that notion that they are making more than double that.

I believe we need policies that encourage more freight to move by rail because what we hear is happening is that Wall Street is pushing the railroads to only carry the most profitable freight leaving companies scrambling to move their…

One of the areas I am most concerned about is court capacity.

These high caseloads and lack of general court capacity have led to significant consequences.

we clearly need to be spending a lot more on innovation, not incrementally more, not 10 percent more, but on the order of magnitude of 10 times more.

Data tells the truth. If you don't have the data and you don't look at the data, it doesn't tell the truth.

We passed the $15 an hour minimum wage, Federal contracting minimum wage.