I am very concerned about new Chinese regulations that make it almost impossible for U.S. technology companies to be involved in cloud services that operate within Chinese markets.

Sea-Tac Airport has been one of the fastest growing large hub airports in the United States for the last 3 years.

To me, post what's happened in international airports and our own facility, you mentioned deterrents, which I love the fact that these K9 units can be deterrents out in the outer perimeters of the airport.

I find the budget so focused on the oil and natural gas aspect of revenue that I think that you are neglecting the fact that the outdoor economy generates $887 billion a year.

You cannot just change this rule without notice and without comment. You cannot just make up your own new regulation without a due process.

I come to the floor tonight to join my colleagues to raise concern about a proposed Senate healthcare bill that might move through the U.S. Senate, as my colleagues are pointing out, without a hearing, without attention to details…

I believe that any action by this Administration to undermine the protection for Bears Ears or any other national monument is illegal, and I will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status.

The science says that we should be focusing our nation's attention on funding and getting ahead of the fire problem.

I come to the floor this afternoon with my colleague from Maine to talk about an important issue, as well, something we had long planned to introduce today and did so this morning--the reintroduction of a Senate bill focusing on apprentice…

this side of the Capitol is obviously sending our thoughts and prayers to colleagues in the House of Representatives--particularly, to Congressman Scalise--and to the other wounded law enforcement individuals and staff. Certainly, our…

I also do not understand zeroing out collaboratives. These are things that have given us our best effort to date on working collaboratively.

I cannot imagine a universe where anyone thinks that status quo at the Forest Service is acceptable, particularly in regards to the fires that we have been facing.

This budget proposes to cut almost $300 million from fighting forest fires and another decrease of $50 million for preventing wildfires.

I will guarantee you my colleagues here in the United States Senate are well on their way to having that fixed.

This budget, which goes in the opposite direction, which proposes cutting $300 million from fire suppression, is not the direction we need to go.

I hope that as my colleague and I continue to work on this, we certainly will not be shortchanging the volunteer fire departments because they are our best resource, in my opinion, right now to help us have a hasty response to wildfires.

I do not see how the President's budget even begins to enable the Forest Service to fulfill its motto of caring for the land and serving the people.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the witnesses.

I'm from Washington and we want to innovate.

I mean, I am pretty sure in 20 years, 25 years, we are all going to be in the energy business.

So Alaska could play a very valuable role for our country that way.

one of the reasons the legislation that Senator Murkowski and I have supported is the next step we think is it is really targeting smart buildings.

Forty percent of our energy use is in buildings and these facilities, I equated, to the next phase of efficiency.

I have to be honest, when we had our hearing in Washington, DC, and the Mayor promised Copper River salmon, he had my attention.

Those kinds of things are going to transform, in the next couple decades, how utilities are perceived and how they work.