Dan Newhouse

Simply put, the law of the land is that Yucca Mountain is this Nation's sole permanent repository for high-level waste.

I can't tell you how disappointed I was to see this administration playing politics with something as important as completing the permanent solution to our Nation's high-level nuclear waste.

I was truly disappointed to see proposed cuts of over $700 million from the current levels for the Hanford cleanup in fiscal year 2021 in the budget request.

The Federal Government has a moral and a legal obligation to cleanup this waste.

I will not extrapolate a lot, but this kind of work impacts almost everybody.

Anything we can do to accelerate your ability to come up with these things, not just in cancer, but in brain research and all the other disciplines that we are focused on.

Thank you, Madam Chair and Mr. Simpson, for having this hearing today. It is truly an important subject to discuss.

Do not get those two confused.

I appreciate Mr. Norman's thoughts. We should be doing everything in our power to incentivize landowners to be active participants in conservation efforts for threatened and endangered species. Without oversight over whether current…

I appreciate the gentleman helping us here this evening as we get down to the final few minutes of our hour. While the thought behind foreign land acquisition in the ESA may have been well-intentioned, we need accountability, and we need…

I thank Mr. LaMalfa and have to say that he has been a true leader in the Congressional Western Caucus and in the House of Representatives. It is awesome to be able to have someone contribute as much as the gentleman does that has the…

I thank Mr. Gianforte; his legislation, the LIST Act, is exactly the kind of update we need. It is a straightforward, science-based tool that equips Fish and Wildlife with exactly the kind of ability to make decisions based on facts…

I urge my colleagues to take the step and do what we can to improve the labor situation for farmers and ranchers across this country.

I thank the gentlewoman for sharing with us her experiences, and I thank her for her leadership and being the lead sponsor on Savanna's Act, as well. It is truly a pleasure to work with my friend. I hope that, with her leadership, we will…

I have come to speak on a crisis that affects communities across our Nation, the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.

Native women throughout the country face a murder rate 10 times higher than the national average with 84 percent experiencing some kind of violence in their lifetimes.

We support a bipartisan amendment from Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas and Dan Newhouse of Washington State that would expand the H-2A program to non-seasonal ag workers.

I would like to, again, urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio). The question was…

As the designee of the gentlewoman from Texas, I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington is recognized for 5 minutes.

The Federal Government has fallen behind in investing in our Nation's water infrastructure and we must prevent further crises from plaguing communities in the West and across the country.

I think I can safely assume the last thing we want on our Nation's hands is another Flint-like water crisis for any of our communities.

The Federal Government's lack of investments to address these conditions... has left communities to face severe water challenges essentially on their own.

I come before you to share my earnest belief that any such effort absolutely must include water infrastructure.

Americans across the country demand a safe and reliable water supply.

We should not be enabling the trafficking of children. Our policies are allowing that to happen.