On behalf of Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), its more than 350 member organizations and more than 500,000 individual members, thank you for the opportunity to testify during the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Hearing.

Based on the OIG's findings in its September 2023 report on the National Park Service's (NPS) deferred maintenance management, please explain the primary reasons that NPS deferred maintenance costs have increased since Fiscal Year 2021.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 224, noes 203, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 7, as follows: [Roll…

As a reminder, seeking asylum is a human, legal right protected by international law and United States law, period. Instead of wishing that that was not the case, Republicans should work with Democrats and the administration to move a…

We have heard the argument today, and indeed for years now, that migrants crossing our border are the primary ones responsible for the tens of thousands of American lives tragically lost to fentanyl overdoses each year. It is a tragedy…

Apparently, the plan that has Mr. Miller salivating includes mass roundups, mass incarceration, permanently ending DACA, and the construction of camps to hold migrants waiting to be processed and presumably later expelled from the country…

I think a soft reminder is important now, as we point to these asylum seekers and those who are seeking refugee status in this country and those who are going through the immigration process. It is important to note that they are not the…

U.S. citizens are providing both the supply and the demand for fentanyl and other illegal drugs. The organized criminal syndicates on both sides of the borders are the ones profiting off the billions and billions of dollars from the misery…

Yes, elections do have consequences, and one of the responsibilities that elections provide to the United States Congress and the House of Representatives, let me remind my colleagues, is our broken immigration system, and that is a…

Again, in our view, this amendment is unnecessary, but it is not actively harmful, either. I hope we can move on. I hope that everybody is satisfied, that they got their little clips done in terms of being strong, hard, anti-immigrant…

In closing, we are having a debate on a piece of legislation that is not really the intent of the legislation. The intent of this legislation is to begin to continue to develop the narrative anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric that the…

This amendment is, frankly, completely unnecessary. It would require preparation and submission of an annual report in perpetuity regarding the migrants housed on certain public lands. Yet, the underlying bill would essentially ban any…