To attack drug and human smuggling, those cartels and organized crimes need a strategic, focused, consistent, law enforcement response.

The agenda that the Department of Homeland Security wants to have ultimate power to waive laws, ignore the public's right to know.

No legislative efforts to reduce gun violence. No prohibition of bump stocks. No universal background checks. Nothing.

As has become a trademark of President Trump and congressional Republicans, some of my colleagues want to blame all of our problems on aspiring Americans.

Scapegoating the victims and building walls is simply not the solution to our border security issues.

He says he wants a bipartisan deal, but then he says he won't support any that are brought to him.

Our economy needs immigration to be competitive and a lead.

Let's eliminate the coded language that tries to make us more comfortable with a nativist and even racist immigration policy.

If this sounds like an over-reach of power, that is because it is.

These are people seeking a better life, not seeking to break the law.

We need to protect our Dreamers, and nearly 80 percent of Americans and a vast majority of Republicans agree this must happen.

How do you think the severe funding cuts proposed for the Department of the Interior and the USDA in the President's Fiscal Year 2019 budget will affect their ability to make land management decisions along the border?

Since we will be seeing more tinderbox-like conditions that are going to make these types of fires common and more intense, what type of activities should we be advocating to both prevent and prepare for these types of fires?

It is time to get serious about addressing them. It is time to talk about climate change.

Unrestricted commercial logging will not curb carbon pollution or make our communities safe.

the Majority simply refuses to talk about the primary driver of forest fires: climate change.

This Committee should be spending its time trying to reduce the effects of climate change, and preparing for the atmospheric warming that is already in the pipeline.

EAJA should be reformed to prevent this abuse of a system designed to protect the vulnerable.

Climate change is not just coming, it is here.

The Trump administration has used the undefined term 'energy dominance' as a way to justify tremendous expansion of energy development on public lands.

Secretary Zinke's efforts to give away even more public land to the oil industry under the guise of energy dominance is eyebrow-raising when we stop to consider what they already have.

However, it is unclear how the Administration plans to balance its desire for energy dominance with its responsibility to protect public lands under FLPMA.

The single greatest threat to the United States' resource wealth is climate change and associated resource depletion.

FLPMA does not give one type of land use priority over another, as this Administration is clearly trying to do by prioritizing coal, oil and gas extraction on public lands.

Ms. Pinto has brought us textbook environmental injustice. She and her community deserve better.