"I do support the President's budget. Some of the initiatives that the President has proposed, well, I think the chairman is correct that they are not likely to see the light of day."
"I was appalled to learn that the Bureau of Indian Education is failing to conduct safety and health inspections for all of its schools."
"It is unconscionable that, if true, the Bureau is not demanding full accountability from the inspection program because one of the most basic elements of children's safety is to be in a school facilit..."
"One of the big ones being the resiliency challenges facing the coastal tribes in the region I represent..."
"There are over 10,000 miners in my district who found themselves unemployed as a result of your keep it in the ground strategy when it comes to coal."
"But can you imagine what it must be like for that miner, that father with small children, formerly making $70,000, $80,000, all of a sudden trying to find a job at McDonald's, unsuccessfully, at minim..."
"There is no question that the Clean Power Plan will fundamentally alter the energy economy in this country and put thousands of hardworking men and women who are employed in the coal industry out of w..."
"Well, the truth is that power plants cannot possibly physically do what you would require, so they have no choice but to switch to something else. It is impossible, physically impossible, for them to ..."
"By all accounts, China is positioning itself to exert more influence in the Pacific and trying to build itself into a maritime power."
"We are not out to keep China down. But we don't look for anybody to dominate the region and certainly not anybody to push the United States out."
"I am equally confident that the bow wave of procurement that I alluded to in my opening remarks..."
"As the force gets smaller, risk increases."