Steven Horsford

Invasive species monitoring control and eradication is time-consuming and expensive.

The spread of invasive species costs billions of dollars and negatively impacts agriculture, commerce, water quality, and wildlife habitat.

Invasive species are a growing problem across millions of acres of Federal land.

I think our record bears out that commitment and that strategy.

Thank you for your service.

We went from a peak of $9 million of UASI funding to under $2 million recently. So, you know, that is a 70 percent reduction in 5 years.

These are serious and significant cuts, and we cannot pretend that they don't have consequences.

I urge my Republican counterparts to work with us in a bipartisan effort to actually fund these improvements to our embassy security.

I believe that we need to continue to do everything within our power as Congress to get to the solutions and the recommendations that will prevent this from happening again.

I thank the gentleman from Texas. I know we are wrapping up on our hour, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize the co-anchor for this hour, my good friend and colleague from New York (Mr. Jeffries), who will provide a bit of a synopsis.

I thank the gentlelady from Ohio. At this time, I would like to turn to the gentleman from Texas, Congressman Veasey, and I would like to thank him again for his hard work and contributions to this new 113th Congress.

Thank you very much to the gentleman from New Jersey. I would like to now turn to the gentlelady from Ohio. She has come to Congress, providing great perspective as a member of the Financial Services Committee specifically, but also in her…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At this time, I would like to turn to several of our new Members of the 113th Congress. I'm very pleased and honored to be serving with them. I've learned so much from all the Members here, but particularly have…

Thank you to the gentlelady from New York, and I appreciate, again, all of her hard work and her commitment on these issues and her willingness to, again, reach across the aisle as you said. We are here to work with anybody who wants to…

At this time I'd like to yield to the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus' Health Brain Trust, the doctor in the House, the person who knows more about health care than most, the honorable gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Mrs…

Thank you, Mr. Vice Chairman, and thank you for your leadership and commitment on these issues. And I know we will continue to fight and advocate for the preservation of the Affordable Care Act and, as you indicate, the proper…

At this time I would like to recognize the vice chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, a leader on a number of key issues that the Congressional Black Caucus is facing this 113th Congress, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr…

I would really take objection to so many Members who claim that they are concerned about the interests of low-income families.

In the False Claims Act, Congress did not dictate to the U.S. Department of Justice the criteria it should employ in making this intervention determination.

It is clearly politically motivated by the majority side.

That was not followed today. And now we are on the third panel, and you did not have an opportunity to bring forward the minority's perspective.

I also want to express my disappointment in how this hearing has been conducted.

So despite the increase of DHS officers and agents, the budget for ammunition procurement declined from 2010 to 2012? Is that correct?

But in health care, should we have 250 percent of insurance company profit when people do not have access to quality health care in America?

I have rural parts of my district that have no medical services whatsoever, or public transportation.