Betty McCollum

So President Biden's plan to consider 30 percent of the land and water by 2030 is something that I am all supportive of.

I included language last year in the subcommittee providing $2 million to the EPA to put the agency in the driver's seat in this initiative.

I want to particularly just say that this priceless lumber, it is going to rebuild the heart of our democracy.

I am absolutely thrilled that you are here with us today in your new role leading the Department of the Interior.

We have sent a letter to the Biden administration, along with the Oversight chair of Energy and Commerce, Ms. DeGette.

I recognized from the beginning that EPA needed to have a positive relationship with DOD.

I am proud that we won that fight, and, in fact, we increased the EPA's funding during my 2 years as chair.

I included language in our House report to increase funding for Urban Connections and to boost our regional-wide opportunities.

The decisions that we make to incentivize or disincentivize different kinds of energy use... can have the effect of choosing winners or losers with climate change.

We don't place a value on water. But we hear about all the value in minerals. And life does not exist without water.

The skin is the largest organ in our body, and everything that we put on our skin is absorbed into our system.

But, Mr. Chair, with your leadership I would like to spotlight this and figure out how we can work together to make sure that products that we put on our largest organ, our skin, is safe for consumption, especially for the young women who…

This pandemic has exposed many long outlying challenges and inequities that our rural communities face.

sulfide copper ore mining could cause, quote, serious and irreparable harm to this unique, iconic, irreplaceable wilderness area, end of quote.

If we don't get our climate under control pretty quick with the heat levels rising, we will see agriculture facing some real dire consequences.

Well, I would like to get to the bottom of what is really going on.

I have a question that I am going to submit for the record, Ms. Fong.

COVID-19 has increased food insecurity across the country. Indian Country has been no exception.

I want to thank you for your effort.

I want to thank you for your emphasis and for what you discussed with me with humanitarian assistance.

You understand humanitarian assistance in a way that really brought it home to me.

We will also work with the staff to get you the information that the CIA World Factbook has.

Climate change can exacerbate environmental, social, economic, political drivers of instability and conflict.

That is part of what is happening in our border is climate change with what we are witnessing with some of the people who are fleeing the effects of climate change in Central America.

I think we need a different strategy that is more cosmic, less--because the current system isn't working.