I don't understand why. In terms of the overall budget, in terms of what is being proposed for expenditures in many other areas, why are we cutting the most popular program the federal government runs?

One of the factors of this budget that has not gotten any publicity is there is zero funding for Ukraine.

Let's talk about the National Park Service. You and I talked about this before. [The] National Park Service budget is cut by one third. About $1 billion, which is one day of the Iran war just to put it in context. I don't understand why.

I understand there's always room for rightsizing and analysis of staffing and those kinds of things, but this is not a gotcha question. I'm puzzled why the administration would cut by one third the funding of one of the most important…

If there has been such, I would certainly like to see it. You probably knew I was going to bring this chart. This is FTEs in the National Park Service going back 10 or 15 years. Here's where we are now. We were understaffed back then.

And yet, this is, I believe, an existential struggle for the future of democracy where we had an aggressive country invade a neighboring country without any justification whatsoever.

They have stepped up. But I think the American people should understand that we have stepped back.

So, it's a zero value. It's going from $310 million to 0. So, you're saying there was no value in those expenditures whatsoever?

As the state with the highest percentage of forest coverage, Maine’s trees offer us everything from the syrup on our pancakes, to the clean air we breathe and the over 14,000 jobs in the forest products industry.

Just for the record, do all of you agree that VA mental health benefits should be available to incarcerated veterans?

"What's going on now, because of the illegal war in Iran, is drastically affecting our national security and will continue to do so in affecting the people of America."

Any attempt to effectuate this order would violate the Constitution, break these bonds, and threaten the foundations of American democracy.

By issuing the executive order, however, the President is attempting to unconstitutionally consolidate power to personally regulate American elections.

It was the failure to adopt any reasonable reforms that compelled me to vote against this irresponsible bill.

The recent well-documented conduct of ICE has clearly and repeatedly violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments – with deeply unfortunate results.

Let me ask, the bill that was mentioned, the Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME, the pilot program for the V.A. to provide mental health services for incarcerated veterans. To me that is a gimme. That's obvious. But we have to start…

I hope this is an area you will pursue with your procurement people.

"So, I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country."

At best, illegal robocalls are a constant annoyance — at worst, they’re scams that target our most vulnerable citizens or tie up businesses’ phone lines.

"I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country."

Our veterans served this country with grit and class, and now it is our turn to return the favor and provide access to the high-quality care and benefits they have rightly earned.

The United States Senate just passed a funding bill for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without any meaningful reforms to the conduct of either.

The Constitution provides no role for the President in regulating federal elections.

Veterans and military families should not see the value of their earned benefits undercut by rising costs.

It is a shame that it took nearly four months to pass this bill, and even more of an embarrassment that this bill passed on a partisan vote after several attempts at good faith bipartisan negotiations to put in place standards of conduct…