Betty McCollum

If there are Federal employees not doing their job, they need to be held accountable to it.

One of the letters that I mentioned... was a letter from Mr. Lujan and I about Bears Ears National Monument, and it addresses tribal sovereignty.

the EPA is reduced by $2.4 billion, 30 percent below 2017. Endocrine disruptors, zeroed out. Radon, zeroed out. Superfund slashed. Brownfields slashed.

the President's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is very disappointing to me, extraordinarily disappointing.

I think we have heard a very solid, united front from across Indian Country.

Representative McCollum, thank you for allowing us to be here in front of you today.

I would just like to thank the chairman for having this important listening hearing with our Native American, Alaska Native brothers and sisters, and I look forward to the testimony.

This is a very, very important listening hearing that we have.

Quite often, when we are in the middle of marking up this particular bill, a colleague of ours, Mr. Quigley, has an amendment to make all the CRS reports available to the public online.

when someone's hourly wage increase for a job that they are doing is cut from $21 to 11--to $14 an hour, it sends a message to the people who had been previously doing this job: You can work for less money, or your work is not valued.

What are we doing? What can we do to help you?

This just isn't about leadership to put up and to be quiet about it. This is also about leadership to see if we need to go back and review and figure out how these folks are not only trained but deployed in the future.

I find this budget to be completely out of balance with the needs of the American people.

I commend people who decide to continue in the Reserves after their discharge.

Sometimes it is a very heavy family discussion about whether or not people are going to stay in the Reserves.

We know this increase in training days is important.

I am going to touch on something, and then I have a question.

What can we do to help you? What is your team doing to ensure that families of these soldiers and airmen...?

The operating tempo has been drastically increased so the number of training days for National Guard soldiers went from 60 to 90.

We are going to be watching to see what happens with county veterans service offices in Minnesota's caseloads.

It sends a message to the people who had been previously doing this job: You can work for less money, or your work is not valued.

the operating tempo has been drastically increased so the number of training days for National Guard soldiers went from 60 to 90.

these specialists provide critical benefits and assistance.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank all the people who have come to testify today, and I am ready to listen.

So you have got lots of problems----