The end result of this will be more destruction, as this locked-up land will eventually be engulfed in catastrophic wildfires.

That is really not a plan. The ping-pong approach continually fails to provide certainty to people, species, and our environment.

The Administration should provide a long-term strategy for doing this, not just pave the way to the next disaster.

Government fiat can quickly replace abundance, and replace that with scarcity.

These decisions will reverse millions of dollars of successful conservation efforts, and will shut the door on future investment.

Mr. Speaker, the bill that passed the committee was partisan and wasteful. As expected, the Speaker succeeded in making a bad bill even worse. That is crazy, but that is how it goes. And things are going wrong for rural America in this…

Madam Speaker, I am glad to hear the gentlewoman is going to work to see the Billy Graham statue is quickly added, and I ask that she does the same for Arkansas statues of Johnny Cash and Daisy Bates. Madam Speaker, we don't need a…

Madam Speaker, in her opening remarks, the gentlewoman quoted Maya Angelou earlier. And since Maya Angelou spent her childhood in my district in Arkansas, I wholeheartedly agree with the words of Maya Angelou that we can do better. But I…

I believe this is low, but it is a start.

The Administration has taken unprecedented steps to cut off access to critical minerals and vital energy sources, putting Americans out of work, and jeopardizing our energy security.

I know from previous service with you on this Committee that justice for Indigenous people is very important to you.