Only one person in the room, I might add, has actually produced a budget for the coming fiscal year, and that is Secretary Jewell.

House Republicans have no budget of their own, and cannot seem to pass individual appropriation bills, but that does not stop them from having loud opinions about the Administration's proposals.

I would urge my colleagues across the aisle, rather than spending your 5 minutes attacking the Administration's budget, take at least some of your time to explain your own views on what our spending priorities should be, and how you…

Only one person in this room has actually produced a budget for the coming fiscal year, and that is Secretary Jewell.

To fail to do your job, then criticize those who are doing theirs, is hypocritical and irresponsible.

Producing a detailed annual budget request for the entire Federal Government is an enormous task that requires serious work and political courage.

I am concerned about the National Park Service's deferred maintenance backlog.

If unaddressed, climate change will continue to make the American West dryer and hotter.

While these hearings are instructive, if we are going to meet the Speaker's deadline, we should have long since begun discussions on a bipartisan legislative solution to the crisis.

In the meantime, while we fiddle by holding yet another hearing, Rome--which in this case is Puerto Rico--continues to burn.

In this President's budget we once again see an increase in the funding for charter schools.