Protecting our environment doesn't have to be bad for business, and I think our witnesses proved today that that is certainly not the case in places like Maine and Minnesota and a lot of others.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses about how policies can be put together here in Congress that will help them to be successful businesses.

Congress must work in bipartisan fashion to help better serve the forestry industry.

We shouldn't build a public school in Maine that doesn't have also some kind of biomass boiler or something built into it.

The lobster industry has taken a big hit, and weaponization of the courts is, I think, the perfect way to put it.

Any estimate at all on what the actual eligibility demand would look like if every logging contractor that needed help ended up getting some?

I believe it is our responsibility to support industries like those that we have in our forested States and communities.

I know in Maine, we are really looking at policies that could turn our State into a bit of an energy island...

This past December, Congress passed the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, which included section 21, I know you are familiar with...

Let me just say, we're proud of the work that the shipbuilders did, they got it done.

I just wanted to talk a little bit more about some of what you were talking about with Representative Luria.

I am concerned that... the current request before the committee cuts a Flight III DDG-51 [guided-missile] destroyer.

I guess the question is, given the fact that we rejected this as a body last year, what has changed?

As I am sure you know, the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, Congress opposed this move understanding that it could possibly result in a reduction of training hours, manpower, and base funding for existing National Guard aircrews.

Listening to the conversation has, at times, been a little frustrating and must be disheartening for some of our allies.

When I was serving, I was in the 3rd Battalion 6th Marines and in the infantry unit.

The Marine Corps job is to be ready to fight, fight today really.

I am not sure who outed me on the birthday, but I appreciate the well wishes. Madam Speaker, I thank the subcommittee chairwoman for her strong support on this issue. This is the second year in a row that the chairwoman and her committee…

The purpose of my amendment is to call attention to the shortage of VA mental health and substance use disorder facilities. For example, veterans in my home State of Maine must travel hundreds of miles out of State to access long-term…

I thank Chairman Smith for yielding. I want to take a moment to talk about an amendment coming forward today having to do with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. I think it is particularly important. Having deployed to Afghanistan and…

I want to encourage you to look at the Restart Act introduced in the Senate by Senators Bennett and Young, and here in the House by myself.

It is important the Federal government recognizes how important they are to access to care.

This morning, thousands of Mainers are staying home and doing their part to bend the curve in the fight against the coronavirus. But thousands of healthcare professionals, shipbuilders, grocery store employees, and many others deemed…

Middle-of-the-road income for a household in my district is $48,000 a household. It is about a third of what a Member of Congress makes, and the people I represent wouldn't keep their jobs, let alone vote, to give themselves a raise, nor…

I heard many times from my constituents that they are skeptical of Washington and suspicious of what they perceive to be its potential corrupting power.