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Any arms sales that fall below these increased threshold levels, Congress will have zero visibility, zero transparency, zero oversight.

In 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act, a historic investment in our Nation's infrastructure that will help build and modernize our water system, transit networks, and broadband, among others.

If Congress incentivized middle school, high school, to create skilled trades programs, so to speak, for students, do you think that would obviously have a positive effect on our workforce in the future?

To me that is a step backward, and that is where, as a former small employer, before I came to Congress.

I have been proud to lead the bipartisan Health Data Act, alongside Congressman Takano and Congresswoman Manning.

I was very proud last Congress to support the Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law in August 22.

Breaching those dams requires an Act of Congress.

It has been made clear by Congressman Simpson, Senator Murray, and Governor Inslee that the energy and capacity of the dams must be replaced prior to dam removal.

It is deeply inappropriate for Members of Congress to leak confidential documents in an apparent attempt to disrupt and sabotage ongoing negotiations.

It has always been my position that Congress, only Congress, can authorize the removal of those dams.

Thank you again, Chairman Tiffany, and thank you to the witnesses.

If our Federal land managers just managed our forests like some of the tribes that I have visited with throughout my tenure in Congress, that we wouldn't have the same level of catastrophic wildfires we are seeing today.

The investments that were secured by House Democrats and President Biden in the last Congress were a downpayment, a downpayment.

Congress must work with tribes to find large-scale long-term solutions to this problem to maintain the forestry infrastructure necessary to accomplish a fully integrated forest health treatment program that will help maintain our way of…

Making clear to the Congress... the unique funding needs and challenges

Congress made its intention clear in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act that the abandoned coal mine land reclamation funding should create good paying jobs for displaced coal workers and incentivize union labor.

I am here today not just as a U.S. Member of Congress, but as a 20 year Air Force veteran.

Last Congress, I introduced the Strengthening Courts for Kids and Families Act.