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Jeff Fortenberry is a Republican politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 1st congressional district from 2005 until 2022. During his tenure, he focused on issues such as agriculture, national security, and fiscal responsibility. Fortenberry was known for his advocacy for rural communities and his efforts to support Nebraska's agricultural economy. He also served on various committees, contributing to discussions on foreign affairs and appropriations. In 2022, he lost his bid for re-election amid challenges in the political landscape.
First, let me thank my good friend Chairman Conaway for working with us on this very important amendment. Mr. Chair, I would like to share a story with you. I just got off the phone with Archie Devoor from Lincoln, Nebraska. Archie grew up…
I think the administration has done a very good job of encouraging a reset in a lot of our multinational agreements and relationships.
Good intentions plus more money means good outcomes. That is not necessarily true, especially when you are dealing with the multilateral institutions.
We are getting ready to break ground, based upon the new piece of legislation that was passed just fairly recently on a new ambulatory care center.
Look, we keep doing this--we keep using the--it is now a word, BRAC. Does anybody remember what it means?
I think it was appropriate to mention as Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz did that you are also ending your service as well.
It might be just a pure budgetary constraint, but yet an artificial one that perhaps keeps some people from the quality of care that they deserve.
Well, this is an attempt to move from, again, regulation and litigation to collaboration.
This is a new term: MISC. It stands for miscellaneous military installation savings commission.
The private-public partnership in Omaha, we hope to have a groundbreaking ceremony in May.
we have to find the right balance between the movement toward a singular goal which is care for our veterans, not a debate over whether this is going to be public or this is going to be private.
So I am proposing this to you all as I have proposed before previous panels for years that we move away from the term because the term causes such indigestion.
We are just paying electrical utility bills or it is not meeting its highest and best use.
The great thing about the American public is that we ask for their help when it comes to helping veterans and they step up.
I recently had the opportunity to join the Lincoln Vietnamese community in the celebration of the Vietnamese New Year, the Year of the Dog. I celebrated this special occasion at St. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions Catholic Church in…
You may remember this around the holidays. It was a television commercial that played quite frequently. It may still be on. But it shows a shelter for the poor and homeless around Christmastime, and men and women are entering from the cold…
H.R. 4647, by Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, would amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and create a Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Subaccount.
Thank you Representatives Jeff Fortenberry (NE) and Debbie Dingell (MI) for understanding the gravity of our growing wildlife crisis.
H.R. 4647, introduced by Representative Fortenberry of Nebraska and Representative Dingell of Michigan, which would increase funding to states for wildlife conservation by directing Federal tax revenue from onshore and offshore oil and gas…
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