Betty McCollum

It is going to come as no surprise to my colleagues that I am going to talk about the Arctic.

U.S. Park Service is having a hard time with pilots and mechanics.

The Arctic is a resource-rich environment feeling the full effects of climate change.

A leading candidate for president is telling the American people and the world that torture works.

So I think of it as a commonsense regulation.

That is why last year working together in a very nonpartisan way, we increased funding for replacement school construction by $25 million.

In northern Minnesota, copper-nickel sulfide mining poses a threat to the water quality of Voyageurs National Park, and the Boundary Waters Canoes Wilderness Area.

I am not an attorney, but it has been my experience here in Congress that if things are clearly settled in a court, then it goes to the judgment fund.

I am concerned that those costs are being met at the expense of other important programs.

These investments are a good start, but so much more still needs to be done.

Mr. Chairman, maybe we should ask CRS, which has a Copyright Division, to get back to this Committee on that? Would that be helpful to all of us?

There is a mental health crisis in Indian Country, and Native youth have been particularly hard hit.

I want to know what you are doing to bring this assistance closer to home.

When Congress created the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation in 1988, it did not envision that the office would still be operating 28 years later.

I have to say I was disappointed that the budget proposes to eliminate the Challenge Cost Share Program.

The failings at Omaha-Winnebago and Rosebud are alarming. Just alarming.

I just hope that we are not being too naive in who we are having do the contracting.

I want you to know that we value the research that USGS has done to better understand our water quality and use.

We have a moral and legal responsibility to provide healthcare for Native Americans.

We will figure out what is going on.

The issue has been going on for too long, and now it is time to just resolve it.

We have to find a balance, Mr. Jenkins. But we have to be proactive because some of the things that are lurking out there are potential carcinogens.

We need to be investing more and not less in such programs.

The U.S. Forest Service is charged with sustaining the health, diversity, and productivity of our Nation's forests and grasslands, and that is no small deed.

America has a responsibility to meet its commitments to the Navajo and Hopi people.