Without finalized settlements, our farmers, our ranchers, our water users are left in limbo.

If President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and other administration officials were serious about controlling immigration and securing our border, we would not have this hearing today.

It is the last water rights battle we have in Indian Country, and it is a big deal for Montana.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The total amount of…

To allow illegal immigrants to set up camp in these parks and hamper everyday American's rights to visit and enjoy these parks is just another example of Biden and his Cabinet putting their leftist agenda above the need of Americans.

food security is national security.

Where will the rest of the 100,000 Afghan refugees go? I can assure you they will not be sent to sanctuary cities.

China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, they are not friends of ours.

We can and we must get the Fort Belknap Indian Community water rights settlement to the President's desk this year.

There is a proposed $1.3 billion increase in this appropriation. With this reduction, there would still be a $600 million increase in the appropriation. That is a reasonable increase based upon the inflation rates that have been caused by…

We are here today to examine a pattern of problems with the VA.gov affecting veterans' benefit claims.

If they have filed, okay, and they have filed within the timeframe that they were supposed to and they did not have recognition given back to them to even tell them that the system did not recognize that, are you going to consider all of…

We changed the director. We had the director removed from Fort Harrison because she was not conducting the affairs properly.

I would like to see that spreadsheet, okay, that says here is how much money we have spent out of this and here is the success rates and here is the marks that we have hit to accomplish whatever task that you have laid out for those funds.

Veterans who are trying to apply for benefits and getting error messages obviously are not interested in that distinction.

Either you are just starting to understand how these different systems interact and create errors or you have known about it and you are just now getting serious about tackling it.

I want to make sure everybody knows that everything that I do here is focused on making sure that we do deliver those benefits to the veterans that they have earned.

The VA must work harder to get our veterans into the system.