Betty McCollum

The Department of Navy's budget request reflects the enormity of the mission that you have to protect America.

I did support the President's budget when it came forward. It was smaller, but the President also had a lot of cost savings in it.

And I am asking, is it an issue of your identified cleanup needs based on the capacity that you have currently, or if you had more capacity, you would clean up more?

We shouldn't have to spell it out, but we spelled it out.

So you are saying you are at capacity then for what you are going to clean up?

I am concerned that it creates an impression that Congress will be restoring the funds this year instead of the Department making these activities priorities in their budget.

And then also as a person who, both as a State representative and as a Member of Congress, has been working with the Pentagon--and I will leave it at the high level up here--the Pentagon on remedial things that needed to happen after…

I got on my knees and started looking at the extinguishers. They were PFAS-free.

I worked on this issue for licensing, especially for family and marriage counseling, and it is different in different States.

Our women, based on where they are stationed, should not be subject to not being able to assert their full rights for healthcare.

It is custom in usage when you're launching something, you need to put in 'such sums as needed.'

I look forward to working with you, Ms. Davids, and the Department of the Interior to make sure that the Department of the Defense turns over every single record.

I strongly believe it should be a right to obtain those records.

Thank you, Representative Davids, for bringing this forward.

Climate change is reshaping the geostrategic, operational, and tactical environment, with significant implications for the United States' national security.

The sum of what you both said is, we need to be prepared for today and ready for tomorrow and putting our people first.

Anything that we can do to make sure that you have the energy you need in a timely fashion that is also green, that reduces greenhouse gasses, is a win-win for the United States taxpayers, the Army, and our climate at large.

Women are not a second-class priority in the United States military, and their protection.

I want to fully state my support for a new round of BRAC.

I think something that has been very frustrating for all of us in a nonpartisan fashion is as we want to move Indian Country forward.

You can count on me to do whatever I can to help you with that.

we were able to have increases to the important work you do in the Environmental Protection Agency

I appreciate you taking the time to fill us in, and we will look forward to working with you on that program in the future.

I am proud that our fiscal year 2022 bill continued to build upon the increases this subcommittee has provided since taking over the majority in fiscal year 2021 to address the needs of Native Americans and Alaska Natives, preserve the…

Some of our parks were designed for ADA. They weren't designed for strollers. They weren't designed for families.