What most people do not realize is that this funding is generated through an excise tax on firearms, ammunition, and equipment.

The Air Force's position has been that it should purchase at least 100 B-21 bombers--how many do you think we'll need?

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act. This legislation reinforces parents' indisputable rights to the protection and education of their children. We have seen…

There are some out there who oppose this legislation who have never been on the fire line.

Congress needs to step in to maintain the status quo and codify the 30-year exemption for the use of fire retardant.

When a wildfire is threatening your constituents' community, they become panicked, they are scared.

Why at this time the Defense Production Act being deployed by the President, what need is it because you usually do that when, A, it is not there, B, industry is unwilling to do this.

They moved forward at the monument on our homelands without including us. They talk about tribal consultation, but their actions do not match their word.

It is just that this whole process I think needs to be reformed.

I think that is an abuse.

We cannot support a monument on our homelands that does not include the tribe.

By contrast, we have the Antiquities Act, and we have Presidential proclamations, executive orders designated what started out as antiquities and has morphed into hundreds of thousands or millions of acres of designations by the Executive…

In fact, the Republicans whose area this encompassed were opposed to this. A lot of civic groups and citizens were opposed.

I am honored to be the chairman of this subcommittee, and privileged to be the first person from Colorado to hold this position.

We have epidemiological evidence that the Endangered Species Act biops, biological opinions being employed in the Delta, are killing children in the South Valley.

It becomes especially burdensome, where companies end up paying extra to zigzag around public lands.

We can remedy them with more sensible regulatory policy.

This is the least intrusive method that exists for large-scale energy production.

I just find it the height of hypocrisy that environmental extremists want to shut down U.S. energy and mining projects all over the United States.

We know that China supplies 26 different minerals, of which the United States is over 50 percent import reliant.

In other words, the connection between critical minerals and national security. And that is something I think we should all be aware of.

From a military standpoint, tellurium is mixed with bismuth to make thermoelectric night vision materials.

I think it is that they are incredibly inefficient.

Certainty is exactly--what Mr. Loris is talking about--is what is critical.

We need to level the playing field for our corporations to make money and do the right thing.