How will the administration's proposed $50 million cut to the GLRI impact our ability to restore and maintain the environmental integrity of the Great Lakes ecosystem?

So, Director Ashe, I would like to get a little bit of an update from you on how the Fish and Wildlife Service is leveraging funds.

Considering we started at $475 million, and you have been proposing cuts was ever since.

In the past 2 years, there have been harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie that have impacted access to safe drinking water.

I learned a great lesson from Representative Kaptur.

For years, every year I have been here, we have watched the administration cut funding for GLRI.

I believe Sergeant Major Green brought up the nurses having a problem with credentialing.

How would they be impacted by BRAC?

Level funding, in some instances, is a victory.

The Great Lakes are a monumentally unique national treasure containing nearly 95 percent of the United States fresh surface water.

I have to tell you that one of the most stunning things to me being from Ohio when I got on this committee was the amount of money we spend on fire suppression.