Many of the bills we are considering today represent worthy ideas to improve and expand access to our public lands and national parks.

I hope that since this program has proven itself that the deference of support for this program, I hope, is something that is going to be resolved.

I think it is really critical that the young people in our country have the experience of being in our national parks.

I hope you will undergo that because I think that these programs have proven themselves to be worthy of support

There should be a definition that you have for what constitutes permanent disability that is showing that someone has to provide in order to get a free pass.

The investigation into this tragedy should guide our decisions going forward to prevent these kinds of tragedies and to provide support for our sailors and Marines.

if we do not deal with the Budget Control Act, we will end up cutting, not increasing, the size of the Navy.

The mindless cuts to defense and non-defense programs were meant to be so bad that Congress would be forced to find an alternative way forward.

The number one consumer of fossil fuels in the country and maybe the world is the Department of Defense.

If you wanted to move faster toward that kind of reliance on alternatives and renewables because we care about things like climate change.

Why did we allow this to happen?

We have to recognize that the Budget Control Act is looming in the background and will have to be dealt with.