Many still do not have safe drinking water.

I think it is important to remember that we are having this hearing today because it has been 47 days since the landfall of Hurricane Maria, and yet our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico are still enduring a humanitarian crisis.

The electricity blackout is now the worst in our Nation's history.

I have seen a tremendous response to help our fellow citizens.

I too, feel that we as a full body of Congress should have the opportunity to debate an authorization for use of military force.

I have serious reservations about the funding-related elements of the Army's new plan.

The Army is asking Congress to, in effect, drive in the dark.

Our Nation's public lands protect some of the natural and historic places that have shaped and defined who we are as a people and a country, and would not have been protected without support from the Federal Government.

I am strongly opposed to any attempts by the Administration or this Congress to open up this national wildlife refuge to drilling, which would permanently degrade this natural wonder.

Clean energy is not prioritized in policy proposals and Executive Orders.

Instead of expanding investments in fossil fuel development, we should be looking to the future.