We talked about using clean American energy, we talked about permitting reform so that we could build new distribution systems.

My idea of conservation is you use it and leave it better for future generations.

The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies willing to mine those deposits under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920.

Thank you, Chairman Hageman, and also thank you to the witnesses for being here today as we convene to take testimony from expert witnesses on the preservation of U.S. critical interests in the Pacific Islands and, more broadly, the…

But it is really hard to come in here and talk about increased money for firefighting, when that is just putting a Band-Aid on the wound instead of going to the symptom of what is causing the problem.

If you go back to Teddy Roosevelt, he said that conservation means development as much as protection.

Conservation should be throughout all of the uses on BLM land.

If you really claim to utilize the best science, why is BLM proposing to fundamentally change the way we manage these forests on flawed science?

I hope everybody in the House and the Senate on both sides of the aisle can come together this Congress so we can enact real change.

This was intended to simply add new funding to cleanup efforts, not overhaul a program that has been working well since the 1970s.

The record we create today will support the mission and work of this Committee to ensure that U.S. citizens and our locally self-governing U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands benefit and prosper under…

If you care about clean air and clean water, you should care about forest management.