"Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez."
"I have introduced H.R. 630, the Urban Indian Health Confer Act, to create a Department-wide confer policy with urban Indian organizations."
"Our clean energy future should not be an excuse to extend mining industries' control and destruction even further."
"I would implore USDA and your agency to conduct effective, meaningful consultations with the tribes in Arizona."
"I again want to recognize Speaker McCarthy and Representative Peters, who are co-leads of the legislation, who are about as passionate about giant sequoias as I am and many others in this room are."
"And the factors that are really needed right now to continue the ongoing work and to scale up?"
"When President Clinton designated the Giant Sequoia National Monument over 20 years ago, he said, and I quote, 'We are here because we recognize that these trees, though they live to be very old and g..."
"I am a little bit puzzled. Under Republicans' own House Rules, any new program or funding has to be offset by cutting a program or funding elsewhere."
"I hope that as the Committee moves forward on this legislation, we are able to do it in a truly bipartisan manner."
"If projections are accurate--and I believe they are--in terms of what the recently-passed budget on the part of the Majority, the Republican Majority, here in the House, what impact would that resourc..."
"Thank you very much."