The American people deserve transparency and accountability.

I do not think anybody can take a look at our response to COVID and say it was a dramatic success. No, it was a miserable failure.

Congress has to reclaim its oversight capability.

Do not turn your material, do not turn your reports over to the Executive Branch and let them tell you what is or is not classified.

There has to be a hammer and we have to take back some of the power that originally was ours.

If the Administration gives us the middle finger there is just no enforcement mechanism.

Our residents are saying: Enough. Enough with giving billionaires and corporations taxpayer dollars that should be going to improve the quality of life of our residents, especially in a city that is still struggling with water shutoffs and…

I was pleased that President Biden's budget request would provide funds for existing Indian land and water claim settlements.

I have introduced a bill, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act, and this bipartisan, bicameral, and long overdue legislation will address the long-standing land claims.

The Biden-Harris administration has certainly maintained a solid commitment to reaching settlements to resolve Tribal land and water claims.

I introduced the Federal PFAS Research Evaluation Act. It is cosponsored by a bipartisan group of Senators Moran, Shaheen, and Durbin.

The Great Lakes are not only in our DNA, but are a critical resource for drinking water, in fact, 40 million people drink water out of the Great Lakes.

I would hope that the panel will take a closer look and deciding how to the pay needs are different depending on park locations.

I introduced the Federal PFAS Research Evaluation Act. It is cosponsored by a bipartisan group of Senators Moran, Shaheen, and Durbin.

There is very little information in the public domain about who makes these drugs.

But right now the companies decide what is confidential.

It looks like there is a lot of diversity but there really is not.

I suspect we will have data from other trains that we look at.