Congress has the responsibility to invest in our national parks, ensuring that they will endure another century.

the ``National Park Service Centennial Act.''

In March of this year, I introduced this legislation, the Preservation Research at Institutions Serving Minorities, the PRISM Act, to ensure that over 400 Hispanic-serving institutions have access to a competitive grant program for…

Before I yield back the balance of my time, let me thank the chair of the Subcommittee on Federal Lands, Mr. McClintock, and Ranking Member Tsongas for their work and the staff's work on this. Again, to Mr. Heck and the delegation from…

I am not going to get into the points that were made about extortion and immorality. What is going on here is that this piece of legislation, H.R. 308, seeks to target just one tribe, the Tohono O'odham Nation, in order to retroactively…

There have already been 18 court and Federal agency rulings favoring Tohono O'odham Nation on this issue, and we can dismiss those court decisions by Federal judges--the Ninth Circuit--State judges, administrative hearings with the…

Today, as all of us extend our condolences of support to the people of France, to the loss of life, to the friends and loved ones and families of those murdered by terrorism, we ask Congress that the administration have the resolve to…

that constitutional question, if I may, your response to that is that we have no choice but to do this legislation, because otherwise we are violating the Constitution.

If we can step away from some of these ideological debates, and deal with some of the really pragmatic things that are going to make the life of our fellow citizens better, then we should deal with those.

even all the historical, factual work that Interior might do through a rigorous process on behalf of a tribal petition, there is no path forward in the legislation, no time frame, no up or down vote required, nothing.

Congress, and its function, is critically important. And this institution is important, but it is an institution ripe for getting politicized on almost every issue.

And states are not necessarily concerned with promoting or protecting our inherent sovereign authority.