And for the first time, we provided $5 million specifically for FRIMA activities.

it addresses the housing issue, so we have money set aside there, about $45 million.

they need to be put at the top of the list for consideration of being labeled as endangered.

I remain concerned that as many as 35 states are not using this block grant funding for stillbirth prevention activities.

I do not want to see us moving backwards.

I want to turn to the Western Oregon operating plan (WOOP), as it is referred to, and this is a plan that coordinates the approach to wildfire response.

It is exciting, as someone who grew up during the Vietnam War, to see the positive relationship that we now have with Vietnam, and hoping to build on that.

We must recognize as a Congress that non-defense funding is just as important as defense spending.

Once we lose them there, they are gone. And we know how hard it is to get the phosphorus out of the lake.

I am still concerned that the EPA is failing to protect frontline communities already overburdened with toxic chemicals and other forms of pollution when it comes to that process.

The world needs American leadership and to lead we have to have the power of our example.

DFC has blinders on, and is continuing to support all these fossil projects.

In Vietnam we really wanted to reinforce support for the Leahy programs to heal the wounds of war.

Thank you. I am going to be pretty strict about us sticking to our time limits.

It is an incredible national parks system, but it only works if we have people staffing it.

Adding new emissions through pipeline expansions, like the GTN Xpress, is incompatible with President Biden's pledge, and it would undermine Oregon's efforts for a clean energy future.

boosting the boots on the ground, if you will, across Indian country seems to be a central tenet of this request.

I am quite pleased that we had that legislative achievement, and I hope the advance helps with the predictable and stable funding for years to come.

Thank you, Chair Merkley, Ranking Member Murkowski and all members of the subcommittee for the opportunity to submit testimony in support of full funding of $425 million in FY 2024 for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

Your position as the first Native American Cabinet Secretary is historic.

it is time to say that DFC has to rethink this strategy doing far more harm than good.

It is imperative to look at a wide range of topics, because those topics are so interwoven.

I introduced bill, the Children's Safe Welcome Act, which we have shared with your team, which was designed to kind of lay out the gold standard.

There are two routes to doing this. One is kind of a voluntary effort through the Xerces Society, but the other is for us to have a regulation that says you can label these plants pollinators safe if they have been raised in this manner.

this is kind of a last ditch five alarm fire