I am concerned that we are seeing the potential to try to drive political partisanship into something that is actually trying to be able to direct what is going to be good policy.

I personally fully support the BLM's decision to be able to relocate the headquarters out West.

I appreciate a lot of the explanations that you are giving.

In the last Congress, I introduced legislation to be able to have the BLM conduct a study on the opportunity to be able to move those headquarters out to the West.

I think it is worthy of note that this was actually bipartisan: Congressman Perlmutter out of Colorado and a former member of this Committee and now the Governor of Colorado--and we just saw a video of him not long ago--Jared Polis also…

I do have the privilege and the honor to be able to represent Colorado's vast Third Congressional District, which is home to the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, also known as HAATS. It is located in Gypsum…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Colorado will be postponed. Amendment No. 386 Offered by Mr. Turner The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle J of title V, add the following: SEC. 597. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE…

I appreciate the kind comments from my colleague out of Colorado in support of something that is fundamentally important to our Nation's security and also to be able to help citizens who may be in treacherous conditions in the high…

VREASA is bipartisan legislation intended to address Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) regulations that could unfairly burden veterans.

Costs associated with emergency ambulance services to non-VA facilities are a huge financial burden for our nation's veterans.

VREASA would clarify that veterans' expenses for emergency ambulance services to non-VA facilities are authorized to be reimbursed by the VA.

Given the support on both sides of the aisle for future manned missions to the moon and Mars, I'm hopeful and confident that H.R. 1029 will advance U.S. interests in space.

We must act swiftly to maintain our position in the global space arena.

I appreciate you very much opening up the process for legislation of those that are not on the Committee to be able to address issues that will certainly impact all of us here at home.

I was proud to introduce this bill with my colleague from Colorado, Congressman Ed Perlmutter.

I think the great blessing, really, to this Committee is to be able to look out into what is possible, not what is, that what is possible can certainly impact what is to come.

It's my goal that, with the passage of H.R. 1029, that we can build upon the accomplishments of the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act.

But it seems to me a lot of the focus is just on urban America. I would like to be able to expand that out a little bit to rural America.

Part of the challenge for CRA is that, for the larger banks that cover multiple States, urban and rural communities, they get very little attention in their CRA examination on their work in rural areas.

If we are losing these local branches and the access to being able to go in, with mobile banking, can it help customers actually address and access some of the needed financial service products?

As Ranking Member McHenry noted, we have 13 million-plus people who are unbanked or are underbanked in the country.

And as we are listening to the conversation right now and some of the branch bank closings that we are seeing, just in my State, we lost 19 more bank branches than were opened in 2018.

we have been becoming keenly aware that there is a need for affordable housing, particularly in our smaller communities.

we ought to be able to make sure that we are taking into account the needs of rural Americans as well.