U.S. State Secretaries of State

The inclusion of the 32 acres in the final EA constituted a shortening of the environmental review process, which deprives the public of the opportunity to comment on that portion of the proposed acquisition.

The draft EA contained no assessment whatsoever of the environmental impacts arising from the acquisition of the 32 acres or from the placement of project features on them.

The final Environmental Assessment (EA) includes 32 additional acres that were neither included in the Tribe's application nor evaluated in the draft EA.

...to the extent that act [Omnibus Indian Advancement Act of 2000] describes those 10 acres of land [San Pablo] as Lytton's `reservation,' this provision makes clear that Lytton's tribal location should be considered to be Contra Costa…

I have asked on both April 22 and May 15 DHS officials about CBP employee training as it pertains to the handling of children.

What happens is that the actual homeowner may live in the continental United States.

But I only have a few minutes left. And all I would ask you is that we not play politics with issues like this.

We cannot ignore the fact that disasters seem to be getting worse.

Can you tell me what your systems are for verifying proof of ownership so they can have access to that aid?

I submitted 50 written questions to Facebook and other companies, and the responses that we received were unfortunately evasive.

In retrospect, I think we clearly view it as a mistake that we did not inform people.

However, a decision was made not to notify the users.

I have to tell you that I am concerned about how much Facebook values trust and transparency...

Has there been an assessment that justifies the need for these increases?

Can you provide that workforce modeling to the Committee?

Given that we have unanimous consensus among our intelligence community that Russia interfered in the election of the President of the United States, it would seem to me that this would be a high priority for the Department of Homeland…

So the goal, then, is to get them permanently receiving their security clearance?

That seems extremely bureaucratic.

And I have a piece of legislation.

I will follow through on that.

As a point of information, Mr. Chair, does the Committee need to vote on something like this?

To me this trend indicates a critical need for a clear and accessible tool...

This tax plan has ballooned the deficit for the purpose of delivering billions of dollars to the top 1 percent.

Entitlement cuts really mean cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.