Yesterday afternoon, we received the welcome news that Rachael Rollins, a radical pro-criminal, Soros prosecutor, is resigning in disgrace from her perch as the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts.

I want to tell a story about why it's so important that this Committee thoroughly vet all nominees.

I support the move to back off. I think that was wise of you to do, and I think you have got really good support for doing that.

You recognized the growth of the number of women veterans seeking care in the VA, which has more than tripled over the last 20 years.

Can you touch on how the implementation for the SERVICE Act is going, and are there any challenges that you are facing that we can be helpful with you?

I believe you change the world through personal relationships, and then also you deescalate things as they occur.

We should be looking at what is causing these fires, not just how do we spend more money to pay firefighters.

The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies willing to mine those deposits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.

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 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…

Their sacrifices highlight why it is a strategic imperative to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific.

If you go back to Teddy Roosevelt, he said that conservation means development as much as protection.

If you really claim to utilize the best science, why is BLM proposing to fundamentally change the way we manage these forests on flawed science?

I hope everybody in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle can come together this Congress so we can enact real change.

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

If you care about clean air and clean water, you should care about forest management.

How many more of these Paradise, California-style fires must occur before we actually do the right thing and start taking preventative measures?