John Boozman

I believe this is an important topic that warrants review by the Committee, and I urge the Committee to plan, as soon as possible, to have a hearing.

I remain concerned the Administration may force the establishment of a bank through the CCC that would intervene in markets for environmental offsets.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and again, we are very grateful for your willingness to serve.

I remain opposed to any effort to shoehorn the establishment and operation of a 'carbon bank' into the CCC authority.

I hope OGC can assist USDA in releasing nearly $2 billion in financial relief to contract poultry and livestock producers.

It is important USDA has a General Counsel who can be relied upon by Congress and the agriculture community to provide sound, practical, and candid legal guidance to the Department.

You are a good lawyer.

This legislation is a critical step toward addressing the physician shortage in our country.

Any raise in the capital gains tax is going to go hard against family forest landowners.

Active forest management, including prescribed fire and mechanical treatments, is critical to decreasing the frequency and scope of these events and protecting the overall health of our forests.

We need to keep our forests working and not pursue policies or incentivize practices that may impede the great story of our forest and wood products industries.

The good news is we have an abundance of the world's greatest carbon sequestration machines--trees.

We must ensure foresters and landowners are able to operate with certainty, predictability, and transparency.

Thank you, Chairwoman Stabenow, for your interest and commitment in continuing this important conversation focusing on the forestry sector.

Without additional investment in MILCON, we cannot adequately address all of these requirements.

Resilience is a particularly timely topic given the ongoing national discussion concerning the important vulnerability of our nation's critical infrastructure.

This is not a Democrat or Republican thing. This is just the history of what we've encountered.

To be resilient first requires that our national resources, infrastructure and installations be hardened against threats, both natural and manmade.

I'm not attacking you. I'm attacking the system.

This is a contract that we have signed with our veterans, and we want to give them the benefits they and their families deserve.

I want you to tell those at the VA that I am very concerned about a bill that we are going to have this week.

We will work this out. We will work together.

We need a score. We need the VA to weigh in. This is major stuff.

The National Guard is a lethal, cost-effective, dual-role operational force that provides strategic depth to the Army, Air Force, and Space Force, and responds to crisis in our homeland. Some estimates put that cost effectiveness of the…

Thank you, Chairman Schatz, and Ranking Member Collins for having this important hearing.