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.

Thank you for yielding, Madam Chair, and for holding today's hearing to discuss Arts and Humanities funding for fiscal year 2023.

spending the annual appropriation efficiently and on quality projects will be key to the program's continued success.

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.

I once again urge you not to lock out America for the domestic energy and minerals it needs for a smooth transition to a cleaner energy future.

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

I applaud your efforts, and it is a high watermark on how government should be operating together and efficiently.

Sometimes put this dead on the poorest places is absolutely morally wrong.

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.

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

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.

The overwhelming majority of our spending goes towards domestic programs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

She taught me a lot of lessons, too, in her time there.

Today's oversight hearing provides an opportunity to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected arts and humanities organizations across the country and how Federal resources are being used to mitigate the virus' impact.

Mining today is much different than it was in years past and we can do it environmentally, safely, but we have to have access to some of those mineral deposits in this country and on our Federal lands.

keeping forests as forests is the number one water quality enhancement that you can do

I have been supportive of EPA's Trash-Free Waters program which provides resources to help communities keep trash out of U.S. waterways and prevent microplastics from entering our food supply and drinking water sources.