These stories are of national and international significance, and we are fortunate that the National Park Service is preserving and interpreting these stories.

Rural health care is really, really critical at this point in time.

I would like to understand where you were prior to that executive order.

Are we inadvertently setting ourselves up for an economic crisis in the agricultural community by having institutions that could be too big to fail?

We simply cannot afford to go backwards in food safety, and the proposal before us would lead us in that direction, I am afraid.

As you know, shortly after taking office, President Trump issued a series of executive orders related to regulations and government operations.

I am asking that the National Park Service Construction Account be funded to $252 million from $215 in last year's budget.

In fact, for every dollar invested in the national parks, $10 is generated in national economic activity for those communities.

It would be helpful to us if we could, at least, see it, it was a little more transparent for us.

I always agreed with our former colleague, Congressman Sam Farr of California, in categorizing the CFTC as a financial first responder.

Last year, I raised the issue of diversity within USDA.

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