Dave Joyce

We intend to engage in active oversight of the spending of those funds to ensure there is a value for the taxpayer.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure that they receive the attention and the resources they deserve.

I recently hosted a roundtable in my district with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and local conservancy folks to discuss, among other issues, the benefits of turning abandoned properties into green spaces and the positive impact these…

State and Private Forestry funds are crucial to keeping our State and private forests protected and healthy.

Thank you, Chair Pingree.

In my little corner of Virginia that has coal mines and a lot of abandoned coal mine areas that date back decades, this program has brought new hope to a lot of communities.

I can't overemphasize the importance of tribal sovereignty. Tribes existed before the States, and tribes have just as much of a right to continue to govern themselves.

It is my sincere hope that together we can continue the hard work of our predecessors for more than a decade to increase the Federal commitment to meeting those trust and treaty obligations.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for continuing these important hearings to get input from tribal leaders on a wide array of programs under this subcommittee's jurisdiction.

I certainly appreciate you thinking of me.

We will miss him, and as likely he would have wanted, we will endeavor to carry on his work on behalf of all American Indians and Alaska Natives.

I recognize that upholding the tribal trust obligation is a responsibility shared by all members of Congress.

Thank you for yielding, Chair Pingree, and I promise to be brief, and thank you for holding today's hearing to receive testimony from our colleagues.

I wholeheartedly agree with your proposal. And that is your proposal to move the Indian Health Service to the mandatory side of the budget ledger.

I urge you to repurpose these existing funds to secure additional doses of monoclonal antibodies and other therapies without delay.

I am again disappointed the Biden administration once again is putting forward a partisan proposal that seems little more than a lengthy liberal wish list.

No Republican will vote for a budget, in the end, that does not have the Hyde protection.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle here on the Committee and the full House to keep this institutional tradition intact.

The overwhelming majority of our spending goes towards domestic programs.

It is disappointing to watch the majority try to blame Republicans, who are the minority party in both chambers.

Excessive spending on the domestic bills is irresponsible, and will dangerously add to our national debt.

Infrastructure, ever since I have been here, nothing has more bipartisan support and the less get done than infrastructure.

But healthcare is one-sixth of our economy. You know, it is something that needs to be dealt with.

In my limited time here--I have been here since 2013, and I have certainly seen the ideas flow from Speaker's Office leadership to the floor, and then we are stuck voting at them.

I would argue overturning 28 States' separately enacted right-to-work laws is a terrifically misplaced priority and, frankly, anti-democratic.