I am proud to say that we have actually executed a few pilot projects that would help the ONF produce a couple million additional board feet of timber.

We need your help to achieve these benefits, especially as rural communities throughout my district continue to take it on the chin.

I have heard, though, from tribal members about their desire to see additional investments in our tribal colleges and universities, too.

I am grateful for the partnership with the regional forester, Glenn Casamassa, and the ONF supervisor, Kelly Lawrence, and her team.

The select committee's guiding principle is to make Congress work better for the American people.

The America COMPETES Act is about creating jobs and spurring innovation all across our country. It is about recognizing that America can't compete if it leaves communities behind and that we need to get all of our best players on the field…

The word ``legendary'' gets thrown around in this place a fair amount, but back in my hometown of Port Angeles, Washington, we have had the opportunity to see a local legend in action for seven decades. Scooter Chapman has been the voice…

100 years ago today a group of Dutch Americans, including future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, established the Netherland-America Foundation to strengthen ties between our two great countries. Over the past 100 years the…

I thank Chair McGovern for yielding. Madam Speaker, I am going to start with a bit of an embarrassing admission. For a number of years, I avoided stepping on a scale because I was about 90 pounds heavier than I am now. Madam Speaker…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 352. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Axne (Spanberger) Barragan (Gallego) Bowman (Tlaib) Brown (Mfume) Cardenas (Gomez) Cohen (Beyer) Crist…

E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. Our Nation's motto reflects the truth embodied by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center for the last 25 years; that our region's diversity is a blessing; that the people in the cultures that have come from so…

Government data should be available to the American people because it belongs to them.

As we prepare to bring American troops home from Afghanistan, it is important to recognize those who weren't able to make it home. With that in mind, I rise to honor our Nation's Gold Star families, mothers, fathers, husband, wives…

I do think part of the solution to that does go back to committee work and building--just building that muscle of legislating makes it less, I think, worrisome for both leadership and individual members about having to take tough votes and…

That is not the case. Actually, transparency and bipartisanship and cooperation, if done correctly, allows each party to build a communications plan that lets them advocate for their positions and to build that case for the public and…

I do think there is something to be considered regarding some kind of expedited floor consideration for legislation that meets certain criteria.

People in the Pacific Northwest have faced horrific news this week regarding potential catastrophic die-off of salmon populations resulting from rising water temperatures from this week's heatwave. Sadly, in our region, deteriorating…

Instead of generating interesting debate and good ideas, hearings too often promote political posturing and sound bites for social media.

I am proud to rise in support of the Promoting United Government Efforts to Save Our Sound Act, or the PUGET SOS Act, and I thank my good friend and colleague, Representative Strickland, for her partnership on this important legislation…

Staff are the backbone of this institution. In fact, the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, over the course of the last few weeks, has had hearings specifically related to how this institution can recruit, retain, and have…

Listen, I am all for readiness, but we can't sacrifice the health of our servicemembers and veterans.

All of them have legacy infrastructure dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries.

I think Congress should keep vital programs like DCIP on track.

I am proud to represent the only marine lab in the DOE complex.

I appreciate that the administration's 'skinny budget' called for quadrupling clean energy research over the next 4 years.