I hope my colleagues stand prepared to join in protecting consumers against this alarming plan, just as we did on the previous one.

I like to say at home, our home, that we get around the table and agree to a lot because of science.

I am concerned that we are shifting 35 percent of the current air tanker contracts to call-when-needed.

Now this new NIFC forecast will have the Pacific Northwest in July/August on the side of what we have seen in the past few years in terms of a fire season.

I assure you we are going to need them, so thank you.

The changing climate and environment is making fire a more challenging environment for our Forest Service, for our wildland firefighters, for our communities.

I guarantee if you asked people in Puget Sound, would you tolerate a little bit of smoke in those months (May, June) to reduce the constant summer-wide haze that was present because of August wildfires . . . I guarantee you, they would say…

I want you to have every single tool you need.

They want us to be giving them every tool possible to fight this fire season.

I understand that, well, we'll get the air tankers. I just want to say that the last year fire managers requested, but did not receive, an air tanker 371 times because none were available.

I hope that the Department of Agriculture will work on that.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on the issue of sexual harassment and what the agency needs to do to better manage and train and skill people in response to these issues.

Hopefully people will be working very quickly to put those out, but it's just a very early reminder of how challenging this season could be.

just a drier environment in which we all have to be very, very mindful of.

We just need to fight that.

this statement by you about how where you live should not determine if you live resonates a lot in my State.

The Medicaid expansion is so critical to that.

I thank my colleague from Hawaii, and our sympathy is with the State of Hawaii as they respond to this volcanic eruption. I noticed on the news this morning that they were referencing it could be as bad as Mount St. Helens. Trust me, that…

I hope you are aware that at the end of 2017, we had a horrific Amtrak derailment in Washington which killed three people.

What I think is helpful is every agency has their challenges, is to see just what that prioritization is and date.

No student should fear for their life while attending school.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all Americans have access to reliable transportation.

I hope our colleagues will take time to really deeply understand how much this Act says. It's about small businesses starting something new and being competitive and that's why we need to have Net Neutrality.

I hope that you will take that charge on aggressively because I think there is so much that people would like to know.

I've always said we need to be more aggressive about our coding education.