The VA has well-established grant programs like the Supportive Service for Veterans Families----

Washington also doesn't have the 'diversity of interests and financial independence' that Madison explained were necessary for a well-functioning state.

Would you trust Mayor Bowser to keep Washington safe if she were given the powers of a governor? Would you trust Marion Barry?

I have proposed proactive natural solutions like the Trillion Trees Act that would restore our forest, promote reforestation, promote innovation, and promote market-based solutions for wood products.

They added that a city using mass timber construction will become a carbon sink versus a carbon source.

we have got to produce more of our rare earth minerals here, in the United States, to fuel our green economy.

From the Yale study, the authors stated that mass timber construction has the potential to create a vast bank vault that could store up to 68 million tons of carbon, annually.

We know that forests are the largest scale, most efficient system to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and wood products like we see here on this dais are 40 to 50 percent, by weight, stored carbon.

We've lost enough people and we've suffered enough damage.

We’ve lost enough people and we’ve suffered enough damage.

I have to express my disappointment in learning that leaders in the House are looking to utilize the budget reconciliation process again this year to advance climate change policies.

Climate change policies impacting agriculture should be developed here at the Agriculture Committee on a bipartisan basis.

Well, thank you, Chairwoman Stabenow, for setting the stage for this morning's hearing.

Thank you, John, and I just want to say quickly how much I appreciate Chairwoman Stabenow having the hearing today.

There is too much at stake for the agriculture sector and rural America for climate policies to be advanced in this manner.

Look how crazy some of the Democratic ideas are. I mean, they had a chance on Saturday morning to stop checks from going to prisoners, and on that vote, they declined it.

I know you are struggling. But my time is expired, and I appreciate your participation.

I hope we can work as a Committee to address those areas, but I think we have maybe a difference of opinion on the best way to address these issues.