I am not a stranger, and I am not afraid of making cuts. But we have to make smart cuts, cuts that are not going to impact, and I am not talking about quality of life issues, I am talking about basic life, human-right issues that impact…

I want to talk to you about an issue that is also very dear to my heart, which is also one which talks about cuts. And that is the Japanese confinement.

Is it supposed to be a revenue-generating enterprise? Because I always thought one of the things that we talked about was the fact that NPS and the Park Service were a way to get our families engaged.

Yet, your next sentence talks about a $354.3 million reduction in the 2017 budget.

I am very concerned that there is an effort to ignore the Department's trust responsibility.

Salvage logging is often an appropriate tool that allows the harvest of commercially viable timber without disrupting the sensitive post-fire landscape.

This discussion draft strikes at the core of environmental laws put in place by Congress to ensure sound management of public lands.

On numerous occasions, you will always hear that it is the environmental laws like NEPA and Endangered Species Act combined with the citizen review of project planning and litigation that are responsible for, basically, the catastrophic…

I would like to remind my colleagues that the ESA has been 99 percent effective at preventing human-caused extinction.

Unfortunately, the discussion draft we are considering today upends both of these important laws.

Nothing is more tyrannical than Congress taking away a citizen's right to challenge the government.