I was unable to attend votes today due to airline flight delays. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 196 and YEA on Roll Call No. 197. personal explanation

Federal land managers have kept our forests in decrepit condition under these laws and they lose money.

I have to tell you, candidly, that the gateway communities feel the current park management is entirely insulated and disinterested in their input and feedback.

Well, what you are doing at Yosemite is not working, and yet you don't seem to be taking that into account in plowing ahead.

These policies are madness, and they are now having a terrible effect on the prices that Americans have to pay for everything from gasoline and electricity to automobiles and light bulbs.

The environmental laws of the 1970s now require an average of 4½ years of studies before we can undertake a forest thinning project.

The right question is, 'Is it good for the park's visitors?' And I will tell you, my assessment is that this is an attitude problem that runs deep, deep in the Park Service.

I think similarly for hurricanes and tornadoes for that matter. What used to be more of a defined season is expanding.

I appreciate Senator Warner's example after example from Virginia on the topic at hand here.

Guam suffered catastrophic flooding that requires significant funding now for repair and recovery.

This was described as a negotiation. Were you invited to that negotiation?

This is not dialog. This is the opposite of dialog.

You had the people on this encampment--I don't know if they were students or not--who were harassing Jewish students.

I'm appalled that what began with Watergate as a legitimate scandal of the wrongdoing has now become an organized weaponization by this President and his Department of Justice.

As usual, my Republican colleagues on the other side of the aisle are accusing the Democrats of doing all their misconduct that they engage in over and over and over in an effort to normalize it.

I applaud the DOJ for not giving into political pressure and following the facts where they lead.

Everyone who purports to call themselves a leader must unequivocally condemn such calls to violence.

That coming down here, outside of that courtroom while that witness is on the stand to try to impeach his credibility and his testimony is jury tampering.