Jerry Carl: “I think this is just another bite of big government.”

We ask the committee to closely scrutinize IHS spending requests.

My bill, the Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act, is an important measure to safeguard Alabama's ancient underwater cypress forest.

The bill has a retroactive effect, stating the effectiveness of the legislation will be as if it was in effect when the IRA was implemented on June 18, 1934.

H.R. 6180 would recognize the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as covered by the IRA and reaffirm any lands previously taken into trust for the tribe's benefit by the Secretary as trust land.