Conservation should be throughout all of the uses on BLM land.

This was intended to simply add new funding to cleanup efforts, not overhaul a program that has been working well since the 1970s.

We have asked for that information, and nobody has been able to provide it so far.

the U.S. compacts with the FAS countries are a balance of extraordinary security and defense right and strategic stability secured for the United States, and extraordinary economic gains and stability for the Freely Associated States.

The record we create today will support the mission and work of this Committee to ensure that U.S. citizens and our locally self-governing U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands benefit and prosper under…

As a former student athlete, I am particularly concerned about recent data related to the mental health challenges faced by student athletes.

As a former student athlete, I am particularly concerned about recent data related to the mental health challenges faced by student athletes.

It is not like we have a choice to go somewhere where there is not copper ore, or cobalt, or nickel and build a mine because you are not going to find any there.

And that needs to be verified. And we need to apply lessons that have been developed through industry.

the Administration has, without statutory mandate from Congress, sought to inject vague notions of environmental justice into every decision-making process

Here is an area that could be managed, where the resources can be used, and that is the law.

USDA plays a critical role in representing the interests of farmers, foresters, and rural communities.

We have an administrative state that tries to usurp the will of Congress, which, really, if you can tell, probably gets under my skin.

Let me be absolutely clear. I do not believe that you are responsible for this specific issue.

Thank you again, Chairman Gosar, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.

How long does it take to permit a mine in Canada in this area?

Having done engineering work before I came to Congress, when I hear 2.8 years or 2.5 years, that causes people real problems that are actually trying to do projects, to have it delayed that long where you are waiting for permitting.

the Administration has participated in numerous sue-and-settle deals with environmental groups so that they can use the settlements to prevent oil and gas production