Betty McCollum

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

I am going to press the secretaries of your services on those questions, because these issues can't lay dormant.

Mental health is something in our military we know we want to cut down on people feeling that they can't ask.

this needs to be a whole-of-government approach. We need to be relying on diplomacy and development, and defense should always be our last resort.

Well, thank you. But we also don't want the Ways and Means Committee to do what they did to us in Interior--both Mr. Calvert and I had to deal with it--and that is a payment in lieu of taxes.

I think the whole committee would like that.

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

We worked closely with Chairwoman Betty McCollum, of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies to get language through Congress that allowed for a waiver of the moratorium.

there is literally no excuse for the Park Police not to adopt body cameras.

Although Rep. Tom Cole and Rep. Betty McCollum championed an amendment to strike this provision from the NDAA, no amendments were allowed to the NDAA and no further debate or consideration could be made.

we do need to bring the program to an end, but we do need to follow the law when we do that.

there needs to be better consultation.

It needs to be done with consultation.

Our fellow citizens throughout Indian country deserve no less when it comes to their health care and their safety.

I too have some concerns.

I want to work save their pristine waters.

So we know, in order to be successful, not only do you need equipment; you need the personnel to operate the equipment to do the mission.

The President cut the Interior appropriations portion in his budget by almost $2 billion, a very substantial $1.9 billion cut.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that we need to have better oversight of how the money is being spent.

I think it is really important to get into schools and for kids to understand music is language, music is math.

Thank you for your passion.

We appreciate all the work that you did in the authorization on that because that gives us a wonderful opportunity to talk about how I need a bigger topline number to work on all these programs.

you certainly as a tribal nation under sovereignty, you should be reimbursed.

the House had money for some of the projects that we're talking about today.

Through the appropriations process, we have the power to block funding for risky offshore development and prevent another large-scale spill before it happens.