Betty McCollum: “We want to see progress moving forward.”

This is crazy. And Ms. Pingree and I, with the chair, we worked on the Bug School.

Let me be clear--I will not write blank checks to the Department of Defense.

I rise in support of the FY2026 Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act.

It is one thing to call you back here for 5 minutes of testimony and talk to you about it. It is something else to go out on the reservation and actually talk to people and see the challenges that you are facing on the reservations.