I take my role in providing oversight of your department very seriously, and have for the last 36 years.

After spending most of my life in the business world, I have seen firsthand how immigrants bring immense contributions to American business. Whether it is a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the frontline worker who has kept our workers safe…

I recommend to the Biden administration that you and your staff are incompetent and be fired.

We can protect the environment, we can improve public health with clean drinking water, and we can put a lot of people to work with the investments in our water infrastructure.

One of the problems that we have is that Governors around the country are not opening up fast enough.

We should have named them the Great Seas, because if you emptied out Lake Superior, it would cover both North and South America 1 foot high.

We need to invest up front, get the data. Then we can understand the outcomes. Then we can get solutions.

It has been brought to my attention that the NOAA office in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which is in my district, is going to be closed.

I had to fight like the dickens to try to get Native Americans included in the program.

part of this reducing recidivism is linking community-based programs to prisons, especially substance use, mental health, and employment.

Because the recidivism rate, at 75 percent 5 years out, is costing taxpayers, you know, $80 billion a year.

If you don't have enough people and you don't have the right people, you will never be successful.

The President, in the New Jobs, American Jobs Plan, proposes $50 billion over 8 years for the new Directorate of Technology at the NSF.

We have got to give folks a fair shot at employment, and it shouldn't be just because of their criminal history that they are excluded.

I think I represent the second-smallest national park, at Perry's Victory Memorial.

What Chester Makes, Makes Chester, but I would like to apply that to every community I represent.

Why can't we commemorate that?

I am concerned by what I am hearing from outside interests about locking up Federal lands from sustainable, responsible use.

Lately, the Federal Government has been spending money it does not have at such a rapid clip that I fear the term "finite funding" may lose its meaning.

I count myself among Leader McCarthy and many other House Republicans who recognize that human activity is contributing to the changing climate.

Chesapeake Bay, crucial to Maryland's economy, culture, what fiscal year 2022 resources do you need to do your part in protecting the health of the Bay?

So I couldn't agree with you more. I own a business with 200-and-some locations around 27 States.

I would just tell you, the difficulty in getting the Park Service to work with the Federal wildlife refuges... is really hard.

The Great Lakes got shortchanged in the past by the Department of the Interior, and we can do so much better.

It would sure be nice, since it is against the current law to do so, if this administration did not do what the last administration did.