I think that there has been a pattern in this country of making mitigation funds available only following disasters.

I appreciate your comments regarding the burnout issue and the preauthorization.

Thank you for working with me and other members of the Nevada delegation on the designation of the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.

I want to make sure that these cold cases don't go unanswered.

I could not agree more after taking a look at this program, and what I know, in my State, after talking to members of our housing coalition, it needs to be reformed and reauthorized.

We have to make sure our cattle ranchers and our ranchers and farmers, their voices are heard and their businesses are not going to be limited in any way, whatsoever.

We need systems that are nimble, that are able to do this, and good, common front ends.

It is about leaving the place better for the next generation, and my colleague Senator Collins and I had asked the GAO how much was climate change costing the U.S. Government, and it is in the billions of dollars.

I appreciate the bipartisan legislation that is coming our way from the Chairwoman and Senator Rounds to look at reforming some of the Rural Housing Services Act.

I should have my Nevada folks talk to the Arizona folks.

We have to work together, and I think there is an opportunity for us to work together, but I am also going to challenge you when I disagree with the BLM.

We have to make it more user friendly. We can make it more searchable to access the programs that we need to and find the ones that maybe are not being utilized because people cannot actually find it or apply for it.

Having a stack of reports is not helping Indian Country.

We want to obtain and maximize our Federal grants, including streamlining the review and authorization process for grant work plans by the State's Interim Finance Committee.

We have to make sure our cattle ranchers and our ranchers and farmers, their voices are heard and their businesses are not going to be limited in any way, whatsoever.

I think that there has been a pattern in this country of making mitigation funds available only following disasters.

The Nevada Department of Insurance earlier this year urged Nevadans to get flood insurance.

We want to be sure that then they follow up on what they are doing, because it just gets lost in a long chain of reports.