Don Beyer

Addressing climate change might help with those catastrophic wildfires also

This Administration's energy dominance agenda feels as if we are going back to the rhetoric in the agenda of decades-old energy policies.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

Did you have personal experience with this?

If that is true, that is damning, that somebody could actually spend more on our environmental document provision than the cost of the dam itself.

If we can all acknowledge that climate change is real, perhaps we can work more closely together

I think this is implicit in Congressman Newhouse's testimony and Mr. Eberhart's, also.

The Administration should be listening to scientists, not industry that wants to dump or endanger our drinking water.

The public deserves to have a say on this, and Republican leadership should stop trying to sneak in provisions to eliminate public comment.

I was so dismayed when twice Republican leadership tried to sneak into the appropriations bill language that would suspend the comment period.

I want to begin by just defending unelected bureaucrats, also known as civil servants.

I confess the number of emails I get every week from family members that have the wildest possible theories.

Let me go further on that. I love the--Ph.D. in military history. It was a fascinating educational background.

We should also examine the state of our cybersecurity practices in defending our critical election infrastructure from covert interference and manipulation.

Using the services or software of Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company that reportedly has close ties to Russian intelligence services, using this on federal networks presents risks not worth taking.

Cybersecurity is no longer just about defending our data. It is on a larger scale about defending our democracy from unwanted foreign influence and disinformation campaigns.

Shouldn't the Army Corps be helping to build back a better, more resilient grid than what existed before?

I was deeply disappointed at the rate of recovery of potable water.

The current budgeting process, including the regular use of continuing resolutions, threat of government shutdowns, lack of a stable budgetary environment prohibits this kind of trade space to be used.

If I can be parochial for just a minute, in two days, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket is going to launch from the mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility up to the International Space Station with important supplies…

The American people, Republican, Democratic and everything else, deserve a higher standard of experience and accomplishment from the top scientific leaders in our government.

Sam Clovis, who was the Administration's pick to be the Chief Scientist, is not a scientist of any kind, much less an agricultural scientist.

It's especially important because this Administration has repeatedly undermined science, particularly in agencies where science should be the key component.

Obama's simple recognition was an acceptance of this gift to the American people.

Security concerns related to the Kaspersky Lab products and reported ties between Eugene Kaspersky, his company, and Russian intelligence services have been brewing within the U.S. intelligence community for years.