My idea of conservation is you use it and leave it better for future generations.

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.

Thank you, Chairman Hageman, and also thank you to the witnesses for being here today as we convene to take testimony from expert witnesses on the preservation of U.S. critical interests in the Pacific Islands and, more broadly, the…

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

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

I think the Forest Service has to create some credibility, and it has to be long-term commitments like the 20-year stewardship contract if you ever want to get that industry back.

But it is really hard to come in here and talk about increased money for firefighting, when that is just putting a Band-Aid on the wound instead of going to the symptom of what is causing the problem.

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

Secretary Haaland said there were 20. Can you get that list for us?

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?

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

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.

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…

We need to remember that those U.S. lands in the Pacific, including the-then U.S. territories of Hawaii and the Philippines, were directly attacked and in some cases occupied by an aspiring imperialist dictatorship attempting to conquer…

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

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.

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.