Betty McCollum

We have two different brands of fitness trackers that we wear to keep track of our activities.

First reading the newspaper a while ago, I read the Federal Government is currently involved in an outrageous lawsuit over naming rights at Yosemite Park.

I think sometimes when people are talking about administrative costs, it is a very abstract thing.

I think I am going to give you something else to be a little frustrated by.

There are dozens of school facilities in need of replacement literally all over Indian Country.

There should be no tolerance for threats of violence and intimidation against public servants who are the conservators of America's nature.

Mr. Chair, I have been a schoolteacher in my past life, and I was in a building in North St. Paul that the fire marshal told the school district either replace it, or you have to cordon it off and not use certain classrooms anymore because…

The fiscal year 2017 budget request reaffirms this commitment and makes the necessary investments to preserve these special places.

How many abandoned mines is the EPA currently working on?

However, the settlement did not include any administrative set-aside for the work that you do at Fish and Wildlife.

That is an earmark for Flint.

In my own congressional district in St. Paul, I had an electric utility that made the decision to convert from coal to gas.

Could a tribal nation work with a local fire department to come out and do fire safety inspections?

I think we need to start talking to our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee, and our colleagues in general, as to how much not only have we cut our personal offices from being able to do things, but we have cut to the bone, GAO, and…

Indian students deserve a quality education. We must protect their rights to safe and healthy schools.

In Minnesota we have the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, the Bug School we call it on the reservation.

Our treasures are vanishing. This is a program that has not received any funding since 2010.

It falls on the taxpayer to pay for the cleanup for these mines.

I just want to lay a marker that it not come out of Interior.

this $90 million coming out of the Interior budget is concerning to me because we have so many unmet needs.

If there is any help you need in making sure that, even if we have to double inspect, we need to get this right.

Sometimes the lowest bid is the best, but we really need make sure that the inspection process is done properly.

We are working to stop and ban the use of torture, because it does not serve our national interests.

Employers don't want to talk about it. My Guardsmen and Reserve men and women don't want to talk about it.

I find these rants frightening and dangerous to our Nation.