Until the President's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal is coupled with credible offsets and bipartisan plans for long-term deficit reduction, I believe the proposal before us today for the Department of the Interior is excessive and…

I want to speak about the Forest Service's Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, which funds science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes.

I remain deeply concerned that the deficit spending is getting worse, not better.

it feels like sometimes the Federal Government's cure to a problem is more dangerous than the disease to begin with.

when we started peeling back the regulations and we lowered the corporate tax rate, got competitive for the first time in decades, we had a record economy.

You know, between the CARES Act as well as the American Rescue Plan, billions of Federal dollars have been allocated to your agency and other agencies.

Mississippi's coasts are impacted by numerous coastal hazards, including hurricanes and other major coastal storms, storm surge, inundation flooding, and subsidence in erosion, coupled with sea-level rise.

we have to get back to work. We have to get our economy going again.

Last year, I was proud to speak on the House floor in support of Senate Bill 2981.

NOAA is a global leader in climate research, observing all the world's oceans and major seas.

I have seen, with some Federal agencies over the years that they have a cavalier attitude towards protecting America's national secrets.