I think it underscores the importance of the NICS program and would look forward to perhaps following up with your team on this particular administrative issue.

There is some real room for reform, in my view, that is substantive and structural.

I think what I would suggest is perhaps we should have a larger conversation as a Committee as to whether or not there should be legislation that gives the BLM Director...to waive that step of the process if they deem it in the best…

I am certainly supportive of the bill that Mr. Curtis, my good friend from Utah, has introduced, as well as Mr. Morelle, Ms. Plaskett.

I am just trying to get a better sense of how this would work in practice.

I guess what I would say is I am a little bit more confused now than I was at the outset of the hearing.

We ought to think about how we reform the process in and of itself, statutorily, so that you don't have to go through this exercise for these land exchanges.

Did Attorney General Garland decline to implement any of the recommendations that you have made?

Did Attorney General Garland attempt to prevent or stop you or your team from taking any investigative step that you deemed necessary?

Did Attorney General Garland permit your inquiry to proceed independently?

Did Attorney General Garland provide support to your efforts?

Did Attorney General Garland interfere with your inquiry, your investigation in any way?

I rise with 80 of my Democratic colleagues to demand that Republicans do their job, do the right thing, and pay America's bills. My colleagues on this side of the aisle are here to do the people's business. Where are Republicans? They have…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, it is a great privilege to be able to be here today to salute my friend, a fine man, a good man, and someone who has served our country so admirably over the course of these last 12 years in…

I am disturbed that in the current debt ceiling negotiations our colleagues across the other side of the aisle are insisting on severe cuts across all categories of spending.

I want to thank Representative Tokuda for her leadership.

I have introduced the Forest Service Flexible Housing Partnership Act, along with my colleague, Senator Bennet in the Senate, which extends an existing authority that I know is being utilized right now in my district in Colorado.

We need to have an all-hands-on-deck approach to support our rural communities and the wildland firefighting workforce.

I couldn't agree with you more in response to Chairman Westerman's question. We all know there is a serious pay cliff approaching.

I have been beating the drum here in Congress, of course, for years with respect to the comprehensive reforms that I think we need to get done, as described and articulated in my bill, the Tim's Act.

I hope we can work toward bipartisan solutions to address our shared concerns regarding reduced wildfire risk.

The ability to provide affordable housing options for our Forest Service workers, for our wildland firefighters, for first responders is very important.

I think that is a significant step in the right direction that moves us closer to the balance.

I think this is a program worth supporting and extending, so I am hopeful that my colleagues will support it.

I don't understand how, on the one hand, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are very quick to fearmonger about offshore wind and its impact on the surrounding environment, but then at the same time are trying to de-fund…