My Prevent Pandemics Act, which was signed into law last year, includes directives to ASPR to assist state and local health departments in accessing the Strategic National Stockpile.

You can't make assumptions about what communities or what Tribes need, you have got to listen and put in the actual work.

Well, as you know, Tribes in Washington State, and really across the country, they each have unique energy demands and challenges.

It is time intensive, it is resource intensive, that is why it is so important to keep the funding streams coming.

What we get for these investments are really important discoveries that keep our Nation competitive.

if we want to stay ahead we can't just focus on defense spending, we have to invest in the many other programs that keep our country strong, and safe, and competitive.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.

You can't make assumptions about what communities or what Tribes need, you have got to listen and put in the actual work.

ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical.

ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.

do not let Speaker McCarthy's partisan, hostage taking win the day, and lose the 21st Century.

Come to the table. Work with us to simply pay our country's bills like we have so many times before.

our competitors, like China, are not waiting for us to work out our differences and fund our government.

Well, as you know, Tribes in Washington State, and really across the country, they each have unique energy demands and challenges.

It is time intensive, it is resource intensive, that is why it is so important to keep the funding streams coming.

You know, industrial emissions made up roughly 30 percent of the U.S. climate emissions, and to address the climate crisis we need to modernize our industrial manufacturing base, and work to reduce emissions across the cement, steel…

So are you coordinating with the EPA to make sure the Army is testing at the most recent recommended lifetime drinking water health advisory levels?

Our investments have to keep up, not fall behind or fall into uncertainty because of partisan gridlock.

ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical, we recently provided $75 million in the Inflation Reduction Act for the Tribal Loan Guarantee Program to help our Tribes and…

I'm really glad to join both of you to keep talking about the investments that we've got to make to support our troops and keep our country safe.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

We need to return to regular order and pass our Nation's funding bills in a timely bipartisan way.