Deferred maintenance backlogs for the National Park Service now exceed $250 million in Nevada, and more than $11 billion nationwide.

As park visitation increases in our state, the Administration has continued to propose full-time employee staff reductions.

We will not allow those cuts to happen, not on our watch.

It is a false choice, in my opinion, to have a discussion about cutting benefits for current or future beneficiaries.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for giving us the opportunity to address this very critical issue which affects millions of seniors and retirees, and one that will affect all of us one day.

In helping Puerto Rico out of its debt crisis, it is essential that Puerto Rico be better prepared for natural disasters.

Every 16 hours, a woman in this country is shot and killed by a current or former partner. Just last week, an 18-year-old woman in Las Vegas was shot dead by her boyfriend while they sat in their car outside of a neighborhood barbecue…

The GOP Congress passed corporate tax cuts and tax cuts for the wealthiest and the most well connected adding $1.8 trillion to the deficit over time.

Can you guarantee me and the men and women at Nellis Air Force Base and Creech Air Force Base that this Administration will not strip away their funds to pay for a border wall?

What is the arbitrary standard with an award date? These are critical missions.

So I look forward to your response and the guarantee that you will tell us whether or not these medical--critical missions at Nellis Air Force Base and Creech will be threatened, based on the proposed cuts by this Administration.

The GOP tax scam helped the wealthy and well connected and stuck middle-class workers and families with the bill.

Now to pay for their tax cuts for the rich, they want to balance the budget on the backs of seniors, children, and the poor by proposing devastating cuts to Medicare, Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, and Medicaid.

For states like Nevada, that have population growth, it is not going to actually allow us to keep up with our health care needs.

President Trump promised during his 2016 campaign that he would not cut Medicaid funding.

This will be detrimental in Nevada, which has the seventh-highest population of individuals with HIV in the nation.

Can you assure me that none of these projects in my district will be delayed or have funds stripped away to pay for a useless border wall?

So why is the President breaking his promise that he made to the people in October of 2018 in Nevada by proposing $116 million of funding for Yucca Mountain?

This Administration's budget is dead on arrival in the House.

Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.

Well, based on this budget, Trump values corporate profits over Medicare. He plans to cut Medicare by anywhere from half a trillion dollars to $840 billion.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 106. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Cuellar). The question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes appeared to have it.

We want you to be successful. On behalf of the American worker, the American business owner, the American consumer, all of whom are depending upon the successful outcome of your negotiations.

In Nevada it is estimated that $107 million worth of exports are threatened by new tariffs.

So why did we give permanent tax cuts to big corporations and not help more small businesses so that you could predictably plan for the future and hire more people?