Chellie Pingree

I really appreciate the work that is being done to help people understand the important role the farmers play in carbon sequestration.

Farmers really need to be our partners in climate solutions.

The programs that you administer and the work that you do is critically important in my State of Maine.

The benefits that other Tribes have seen from allowing Tribal jurisdiction over domestic violence cases include: increased public safety for all of those living on Tribal lands, increased community conversations about domestic violence…

Thank you to everyone on the panel, and I yield back to the chair.

VAWA protections are critically important for our tribe.

Thank you also to Ms. Chellie Pingree for always taking the time to learn our issues and advocate for the tribal nations located in Maine.

H.R. 1, our voting rights, ethics package, and campaign finance reform.

I think that the reorganization of ERS jeopardizes some of the scientific integrity by injecting politics into the work.

I am one of the people who doesn't support the proposed relocation and reorganization of the two USDA agricultural research agencies, NIFA and ERS.

I do not feel like it has been a transparent process.

Stakeholders have suggested to me that the ERS reorganization was proposed because research coming out of the agency didn't align with the administration's views on topics such as SNAP or climate change.

I have a lot of concerns about the proposed relocation and reorganization of NIFA and ERS, and I think every Democrat on this subcommittee and I have expressed our opposition to the plan.

I am really appreciative of how the tribe comes together as a community and uses traditions from the community to engage people at all levels.

I am actually about to submit a bipartisan bill on ocean acidification which I worked on before.

I think I may be the only person represented in the room who represents a district on the ocean. And I am very pleased that our entire congressional delegation of all parties, Republican, Democrat, and Independent, have opposed offshore…

Thank you for your testimony.

Obviously in the State of Maine, we care deeply about our relationship with the Nature Conservancy and conservation organizations, and we love our parks.

I look forward to our visit to Walter Reed. I have heard about the program before, and thank you for your testimony.

Any increase we can have in funding makes a huge difference, at the State level.

I thank the gentleman from Florida for reminding us of some important compromises. Some I liked, some I didn't. But were it not for the Missouri Compromise, we wouldn't have Maine, so I am glad about that one anyway. Also, as you said, we…

I thank the gentlewoman so much for sharing that and for hosting a roundtable in her district. Madam Speaker, I think every time we have a chance to have people gather to talk about this, at least they know we are listening to them, even…

I thank Ms. Sewell from Alabama for being here tonight. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).

I thank the gentleman from Maryland for his comments. I know it is particularly challenging in a district where so many people are close to Washington and so many Federal employees have a multitude of challenges. So I appreciate the…

I thank everyone here tonight for providing the diversity of stories that are really coming from States across the country which we all represent. And I know it is just a small bit of what we are all hearing every day in our offices. I…