As a former State secretary, I know that State and locals know their communities much better than the Federal Government ever could. We have to have an effective partnership.

But one of the really important aspects of it, to me, was addressing the backlog of maintenance that we have in our national parks.

I am not for closing the doors to the courthouse, but we have to have some action against serial litigators.

I look forward to working with you on this and many other issues that come before the EPA.

As I understand it, RVs are the number-one-selling item in terms of vehicles and stuff, because people have decided that they want to see America again.

I just had to leave for a second from the hearing because we were doing a press conference on a bill that Senator Bennet and Representative Crow and I just introduced called the Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act, which will help restore…

There has to be opportunity for people to continue to make a living in the meantime, and these jobs are being ripped away now.

I appreciate all you being here. Thank you, Marcy, for holding this hearing.

We must begin new feasibility studies for both Cave Buttes Dam and the McMicken Dam to allow the Corps to evaluate flood risk management needs and safety modifications.

I urge the subcommittee to provide the Bureau the resources necessary to fulfill this critical commitment.

The findings outlined in these reports demonstrate that today's oil and natural gas jobs are better for energy construction workers across the country in both the short and the long term.

I would like to say thank you to Congressman Foster for his work on the importance of research at our national laboratories all across the country.

Is it a smart idea to unilaterally eliminate existing jobs simply because they happen to be in an industry that many of my Democrat friends find unfashionable?

Frankly, domestic manufacturing to keep and create good-paying jobs here in the United States is important.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

What I am not proud of is President Biden, on his first day in office, unilaterally signing away thousands of well-paying jobs by halting construction of the Keystone XL pipeline with the flick of a pen.

Real solutions, on the other hand, are focused on innovation and clean energy technology.

It is heartless, it is unconscionability, and I believe it is absolutely wrong.

We won't work--it won't work--what won't work, anyway, is our command and control of regulatory heavy schemes.

And if you are going to address climate change, nuclear energy is going to be a huge part of that.

I am not convinced it is politically feasible to think that we can spend our way out of this issue

we need to get this before the authorizing committee so that they can actually address this and allow, as you say in your thing in the Biden administration says build back better.

Every administration, whether it is Republican or Democrat, always comes back with a budget request for the Army Corps of Engineers that is below the level of the year before.

The national laboratory system has long been labeled the crown jewel of our Nation's research and innovation ecosystem.

I will tell you as former chairman of the Interior Subcommittee... you mean you could only rebuild it to the--to the state that just got destroyed by the hurricane?