I am very interested in what more the Marine Corps is doing to lead the Department of Defense to help America advance in the energy sector more quickly.

Russia increases its disruptive behavior.

I just point that out as you begin to shift units, and so forth, please don't forget the fourth seacoast and please don't forget this region that is very patriotic.

I want to know how climate change is impacting your installations, and then I want to see how the President's budget is addressing those.

I support the President's decision. 20 years after September 11, 2001, it is time for the Afghan people to take ownership of their own country's future.

I want to draw attention to a few areas. Number one, your State Partnership Program, which I fully support.

As a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, I am very honored to be co-leading efforts to provide $6 million for postal nonbank financial services in a pilot program through the U.S. Postal Service. I am thankful to my House…

Today I rise to congratulate the winner of the Ohio Ninth Congressional District's second annual Congressional App Challenge, James Bish, of Bay High School in Bay Village, Ohio. James' app, called Anonymous FRQ Grading, is an impressive…

If the Great Lakes were a nation, it would be the third largest economy in the world, with a GDP of more than $6 trillion.

I would like to propose creating attention to the Great Lakes region, and I look forward in the future to presenting the committee with two proposals, one to augment the authorities of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development…

I want to applaud your committee for including my floor amendments last year expressing concern for proposed cuts to long-distance Amtrak routes.

Yet before our eyes, they are succumbing to an ecological disaster of epic proportions, and an economy that struggles to reinvent itself.

As co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, I rise with great concern regarding Europe's energy security with the imminent completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Nord Stream 2 is a Russian malign influence energy project designed…

Thank you so much for this hearing again, Madam Chair. You make a difference.

We are lucky in the GLRI if we get 250 million, sometimes 330 million.

As we look forward toward a Build Back Better agenda, how can our country confront a reckoning with race and poverty without addressing the unfairness of the massive financial obligations placed on communities like Cleveland, like Toledo…

Thank God there is leadership--and things are going to change.

I said, I don't want sycamore trees. I said, find me trees that don't make such a mess in the city.

I think this DC group has really--they are on to something transformational.

I wanted to mention that both Congressman Joyce and myself share a fresh water coast in the Great Lakes, and we are told that about 22 million pounds of plastic are dumped into the Great Lakes each year, half of which enters Lake Michigan…

I just wanted to go back again, and I will follow up with a letter urging the Secretary to think about the CCC.

I am a huge supporter of the Urban and Community Forestry Program at the Forest Service...

I will just tell you a recent experience I had anticipating Earth Day.

I rise with great concern regarding the recently announced contract between the United States Post Office and Oshkosh Defense for the construction of 165,000 postal vehicles over the next decade, all new. There is no doubt our postal fleet…

If I have to support a separate task force to create it, volunteer, I will put you on it.