I recognize the value of the investments that the Puyallup Tribe has made in your correctional facility and tribal court system, what that has meant to public safety.

It is our job to fund it, right, to actually make sure that there is necessary funding in place.

I know that there is chronic underfunding of the BIA's tribal courts and law enforcement programs, and I think that is something that this committee absolutely has to address.

We are, I think, also conscious of the fact that the BIA doesn't have any dedicated funding for that purpose.

I think the Federal government needs to be a better partner, and particularly with regard to your ability to exercise your treaty rights.

I just want to express gratitude to each of you for coming and testifying and sharing your stories.

Vice Chair Johnston, first, thank you for highlighting the threats that your tribe is facing due to climate change.

Whoever figures out how to quickly gather information in various domains and just as quickly direct military actions will have the decisive advantage in battle.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill, which will restore funding for the Department of the Interior, for the Forest Service, and for the Environmental Protection Agency, because it is…

Yesterday, I met with a group of Federal workers in Tacoma to discuss the impacts of the government shutdown. One of the folks there was a prison guard. She told me that, without her paycheck, she didn't know if she could pay for childcare…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I am proud to rise in support of title II of this resolution to establish a new Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, and I start by thanking Chairman McGovern and the Speaker…

Failure to correct the break between demand and supply--this isn't a demand problem; this is a supply problem--holds back the growth of the economy.

It defers the beginning of the single most powerful and important net worth building program that most Americans have.

We have a housing crisis in this country that is caused by a severe underproduction of housing units of all kinds.

When you buy a home, that transaction doesn't stop when they hand you the key to the door.

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In 1961, in the face of a challenge from the Soviets, President Kennedy visited the University of Washington and said we are neither ``warmongers nor appeasers. Neither hard nor soft. We are Americans, determined to defend the frontiers of…

I have no further speakers on this amendment. Mr. Chair, I thank the majority for their support of this amendment and for moving this important legislation forward, and I urge my colleagues to adopt it. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike ``pinnipeds'' in each place it appears and insert ``sea lions''. Strike ``pinniped'' in each place…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 2083, which would provide targeted relief to endangered salmon and steelhead stocks in the Columbia River and its tributaries from the threat of predation by…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today just to join my colleagues in urging the House to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund before it expires this September. I think former Senator ``Scoop'' Jackson…

One of the best parts of this job is getting to develop relationships with outstanding people in my district, people who are difference makers in the best sense of the word. Kitsap County, Washington, is a better place because of one such…

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I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise today in support of my amendment, which would modify the Airport Improvement Program to require the FAA to explicitly consider the emergency preparedness needs of the communities served when…