As technology within the agriculture industry continues to make leaps and bounds, we're seeing farmers grow more food while more judiciously using inputs such as water and fertilizer.

I would like to thank Ranking Member LaMalfa for his engagement on this issue.

I hope this hearing will help us better understand the severity of the deferred maintenance backlog, its impact on regional economies, and the agency's future plans for capital improvement.

Questions Submitted by Hon. Abigail Davis Spanberger, a Representative in Congress from Virginia

The National Forest System is critical to our economy and our environment.

The Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:05 a.m.

After 18 years of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, the country stands in a bloody stalemate.

We should not back down, we should not surrender, not in the face of the climate crisis.

the scientific consensus is clear, climate change is real.

it is just so sad that I--it is so incredibly many people, so incredibly many examples, that it is just horrible.

This generation is giving us a job to do.

I hold your commitment to fighting for the future generations of this planet in the highest esteem.

It is just so sad that I--it is so incredibly many people, so incredibly many examples, that it is just horrible.

Our solutions must equal the challenge before us.

We need to take bold action now.

We have talked a lot about the nuclear forces modernization cycle that began in the early 2000's, and that many of these modernization programs would be subject to limits under the New START Treaty.

I would like to see both Washington and Moscow use the Bilateral Consultative Commission aggressively.

I am proud to introduce this amendment alongside my colleague, Congressman Hurd from Texas, who is also a former CIA case officer. Our bipartisan amendment, the Trafficking and Smuggling Intelligence Act, comes at a time of great hardship…

I urge my colleagues... to vote for this bill.

It is fundamentally important that we do everything possible to protect our democracy and to hold those accountable who have endeavored to interfere in our elections.

And in an effort to provide greater transparency, what would be some of the actual changes to the system that you all would recommend if we were looking at a system like that, how it could be effective, or how it could be made more…

And it is an interesting process where you create a circumstance where you are expecting people to be aware of it if they have the ability to report or they are looped into what the reports are.

Do you have an opinion, sir, on what role Congress should play in overseeing Section 232 tariffs?

I would love to hear from anyone on the panel who would like to comment on this.

How does that create a challenge in your current role, for example, in trying to advocate on behalf of U.S. businesses?