Fossil fuels have been paying the bills, in many cases, for improvements in the environment.

Yes, so here comes, alternative energy is coal now.

I wrote a letter on August 27, 2021, to the Food Safety Inspection Service, it actually went to Secretary Vilsack, in regard to forced mask mandates that were put on processing facilities.

Will you make that a priority of the Department of the Interior, that your agency follows through with that coordination and consistency review with local units of government?

I really appreciate that you mention following the science on this, because there were 26 wildlife scientists back in, I think was 2013 or 2014, in the Great Lakes states, that said that when the gray wolf was re-listed by the Federal judge, they said it is a terrible mistake, because under the Endangered Species Act it should be de-listed.

Have you seen the increase in the price of a 2x4? Are you familiar with what is going on there?

we should make sure that we are very circumspect about this and that we don't take actions on the public policy front that could end up harming not just our economy but also the environment.

public policy decisions emanate from this, and we are seeing some significant mistakes.

One of the concerns I have, Mr. Chairman, is that this is a backdoor WOTUS, the Waters of the United States, which the people of this country have rejected.

I sometimes wonder if we are seeing weather rather than climate in some of the discussion that we have here.

To say that there is not a connection, as the Chair did, between illegal immigration and the juvenile justice system is simply inaccurate.