Your position as the first Native American Cabinet Secretary is historic.

I want to thank Congress for the Fire Fix, because it certainly helped in terms of limiting our ability.

We pointed to the risk of higher launch prices and distorted pricing practices based on projections validated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

We locked in the first-ever set of financial penalties for pricing gouging in Medicare.

I want to turn to the Western Oregon operating plan (WOOP), as it is referred to, and this is a plan that coordinates the approach to wildfire response.

I have said from the beginning that when the Federal Government leads on flagship health reforms in Medicare and in its key programs, we know as sure as the night follows the day that the private sector is going to follow.

I want to turn to tribal co-management. The Klamath Tribe in the southern part of Oregon, their reservation was taken back by the Government when the tribe was terminated.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think it would be very significant to the tribe.

I am quite impressed by the way we have responded, but I do think that the circumstances regarding Hong Kong, Ukraine, and China's use of high-tech to suppress the Uyghurs are very appealing strategies to many authoritarian leaders.

Yeah, absolutely. We are determined to try to prevent that fire borrowing, which is why we are keeping the window open for a supplemental of another $450 million.

That's a sharp contrast to the Republican approach to the Federal budget since the beginning of this year, which amounts to demanding secret negotiations on unspecified cuts to Federal programs while holding hostage the full faith and…

as long as I'm chairman of the Finance Committee, I will fight any effort to engage in intergenerational warfare.

I am very pleased to see the proposal for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Thank you Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

We are going to be having a hearing next Thursday in this committee specifically on them.

A major driver is a $742 million increase to expand access to health care across all IHS Direct Service lines.