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Witness Mr. Johan Land
Samsara · 1 hearing
Hearing Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management areas, wildlife conservation areas, protection areas, recreation areas,...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 13 transcript matches
HEINRICH, MARTIN "These threats have united local governments, tribes, traditional historic communities, and community organizations of all stripes to preserve the shared yet distinct heritages of the region. And as a result, we have the Caja del Rio Protection Act. This bill will create two new stewardship areas, a new special management area on over 67,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land, and a new national conservation area on over 17,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land. It will permit traditional uses like herb and mineral gathering, hunting, and livestock grazing, and it will conserve an..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Request transcript · 7 transcript matches
LEE, MIKE "partial compensation for the tax base that Washington, D.C. has removed from them. I emphasize they are partial, and for many small counties, the current pilt payments remain woefully inadequate. A county may have relatively few residents while maintaining an enormous amount of federally controlled land and a correspondingly small amount of private land from which tax revenue could be derived. Its population alone may not reflect the cost of providing services across that land, and in countless circumstances, that is the case. The Small County Pilt Parity Act would establish additional..."
Hearing • H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025” • H.R. 2317 (Rep. Amodei), “Northern Nevada Economic...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
WESTERMAN, BRUCE "will make necessary adjustments to the 2010 law to better enable the Crow Tribe of Montana to implement its long-standing water rights settlement. The legislation will provide flexibility to deliver a reliable water supply to the Crow Indian Reservation and extend the tribe's exclusive right to develop hydropower without requiring additional federal funding. We'll also consider Mr. Amadei's Northern Nevada Economic Development Conservation Act, which combines various land management proposals affecting public lands in several northern Nevada counties. With more than 80 percent of Nevada's..."
Hearing Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) affects permitting for energy,...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
LEE, MIKE "Good morning, and welcome to all of you. Today, we're holding a hearing on how exactly the Bureau of Land Management plans land use under the Federal Land Management Policy Act, also known as"
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
LEE, MIKE "And yet, many of these remain stalled because a few Senate Democrats are deliberately creating a backlog of non-controversial bills to create a contrived justification for bundling them into a massive lands package filled with unrelated priorities, including massive federal land grabs that could not independently pass on their own. I said this before, and I'll say it"
CRS Report
Land Exchanges: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Process and Issues
Reports · Nov 7, 2016
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducts land exchanges with other land owners to acquire and dispose of land. The agency is authorized to conduct land exchanges under the Federal Land Policy and...
CRS Report
The Oregon and California Railroad Lands (O&C Lands): In Brief
Reports · May 25, 2023
The Oregon and California Railroad (O&C) lands consist of 2.6 million acres of timberland in western Oregon. The majority of these lands were originally granted to the Oregon & California Railroad...
CRS Report
Land Disposal Authorities and Processes of the Bureau of Land Management
Reports · Jun 3, 2024
Congress has provided various statutory authorities to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), within the Department of the Interior, to dispose of federal lands through conveyance to another party. One...
Hearing Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the...
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jul 1, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE TERRY SAYRE "My daughter, who is Miss Tulare County, had her fundraiser there. My colonist group used to have a pancake breakfast every fair day there. So I'm totally invested in seeing this revisionary, outdated federal act of Congress to let us purchase this land from the railroad, which has taken us some time to get them to also be willing to let that land go, that we can use it. And the city has not wanted to restore the building when we didn't own the land because the railroad at any moment could come and take that land away. So that's my main interest, is looking at reflecting the importance of this..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act to modify a provision relating to the extension of certain dates for the...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
PADILLA, ALEX "land when Agua Caliente's reservation was created. The Agua Caliente's land is held in a distinct checkerboard pattern of land ownership, interspersed with railroad and private property. As you might imagine, it has been quite challenging to resolve how to manage groundwater that is overlaid by multiple checkerboard landowners, all of whose actions affect the groundwater below, not just their own property, but also their"
CRS Report
Tribal Lands: Overview and Issues for Congress
Reports · Jan 16, 2025
Throughout history, the United States has established or changed the status of lands associated with federally recognized Tribes (Tribes). Many Tribes have associated lands (tribal lands), including...
CRS Report
Withdrawal of Federal Lands: Analysis of a Common Legislated Withdrawal Provision
Reports · Jan 15, 2021
Lands and interest in lands owned by the United States (i.e., federal lands) have been withdrawn from agency management under various public land laws. Federal land withdrawals typically seek to...
CRS Report
This Land Is Whose Land? The McGirt v. Oklahoma Decision and Considerations for Congress
Posts · Jul 24, 2020
On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court announced its decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma—hailed by some as the “most significant Indian Law case of the century.” In a 5-4 ruling, the Court held that land...
CRS Report
This Land Is Your Land? Eminent Domain Under the Natural Gas Act and State Sovereign Immunity
Posts · Oct 30, 2019
In passing the Natural Gas Act of 1938, Congress acknowledged that interstate natural gas pipelines and other natural gas transmission facilities serve the public interest. To facilitate the land...
CRS Report
Tribal Lands: An Overview
Resources · Oct 14, 2021
Tribal lands can have a complicated and intermingled mix of land ownership and designation statuses. For instance, some federally recognized Indian tribes (hereinafter referred to as tribes) have...
CRS Report
Federal and Indian Lands on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Resources · Feb 21, 2018
The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in the Department of...
CRS Report
Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data
Reports · Feb 21, 2020
The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States. Four major federal land management agencies administer 606.5 million acres of...
CRS Report
State Management of Federal Lands: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · Dec 16, 2016
The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land, about 28% of the 2.27 billion acres in the United States. This land is managed by numerous agencies, but four agencies administer about...
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Kyle Haustveit, of North...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026 · Transcript · 5 transcript matches
CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE "an act and piece of legislation that Secretary Burgum has praised as well. This is a model for land disposal like states in the West where there's a lot of federal land. What it does is it prioritizes disposal through a process that targets parcels based on local need and utilizes land sale revenue for conservation, for infrastructure, for recreation, for education in the state in which the land sales took place. I have introduced legislation to expand that disposal boundary to the benefit of my state for economic development, for"
Hearing Hearings to examine S.90, to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel management plans...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Dec 2, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Hearings to examine S.462, to provide for economic development and conservation in Washoe County, Nevada, S.1349, to withdraw the National Forest...
senate Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee · Feb 12, 2026 · Request transcript
CRS Report
Alaska Native Lands and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA): Overview and Selected Issues for Congress
Reports · Dec 22, 2021
At the time of its passage in 1971, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA; P.L. 92-203) was the largest land claims settlement in U.S. history. ANCSA extinguished claims by Alaska Natives to...
CRS Report
Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations on Federal Lands
Resources · May 7, 2024
Each year, thousands of visitors to federal lands require the assistance of search and rescue (SAR) services. SAR operations take place in a wide range of environments and conditions and can include...
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.291, to establish an interest-bearing account for the non-Federal contributions to the Lower Colorado River...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Dec 17, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.140, to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, S.332, to require a study...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Request transcript
Testimony BENTZ, CLIFF
Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for this bill, which I strongly support. I just want to mention one thing about, maybe two things, about language in the bill talking about the nature of an asset, and it says the term asset means any real property, and that goes on to say including. And the reason I find that important is because in my district back in Oregon, there are 15.7 million acres of BLM land, and that land is included in the definition of asset. The improvement to the land or the..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.601 and H.R.1276, bills to remove restrictions from a parcel of land in Paducah, Kentucky, S.815, to designate the...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.105, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Mar 5, 2025 · Request transcript
Hearing Business meeting to consider H.R.4550, to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, S.1462, to improve forest management activities on...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Oct 21, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness Steve Feldgus
Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Department of the Interior (Retired) · 2 hearings
Witness Adam Suess
Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Department of Interior · 1 hearing
Witness Tim Canterbury
Public Lands Council · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. Christa Stoneham
Houston Land Bank · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. Robbie LeValley
Public Lands Council · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Lawerence Falbe
International Council of Shopping Centers Environmental and Land Use Policy Committee · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Thomas Heinlein
Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior · 1 hearing
Witness Mr. Jon Raby
Bureau of Land Management · 1 hearing
Witness Ms. I Ling Thompson
Foundation for America's Public Lands · 1 hearing
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.236, to amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the "Long-Term Leasing Act"), to authorize leases of up...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · May 20, 2026 · Request transcript
Hearing Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests and Outlook for the 2026 Wildfire Year.”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jun 4, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
NEGUSE, JOE "You're probably familiar with this, but essentially the Forest Service has just recently made some announcements regarding the Maroon Bells scenic area. There's a lot of backlog with respect to deferred maintenance and the Forest Service essentially said that they will no longer or are looking for arrangements to be able to offload the management of the scenic area to private or public parties. And while I have every belief that Pitkin County, of course, would be a trusted steward of Maroon Bells, I think it's a mistake to think of our public lands in this transactional way, where if the math..."
Hearing Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana, S.1055, to amend...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
MURKOWSKI, LISA "I will be opposing this amendment. Senator Daines' bill follows the precedent that's established by the Northern Cheyenne Lands Act with a similar acre-for-acre land exchange. The approach has been agreed to by the parties to the land exchange and I think changing the terms now without support from the parties or input from the implementing agency would only serve to delay implementation and withhold long-overdue relief for the tribe. Further discussion on this amendment? Seeing none, is there a request for a roll call vote? The question is on agreeing to Schatz's amendment KAT 26506 to..."
Hearing An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including post-2026 operations negotiations.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
SPEAKER_18 "whether national defense or, for that matter, flood control. I am concerned, however, that this bill also opens up hard rock mining on lands that were acquired with funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund or from FLPFA, the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act. These funds acquire public lands for conservation and for recreational use. But because they are acquired lands, minerals on them are governed by the Mineral Leasing Act for acquired lands, the law of this underlying bill amends today. Now, while the MLA for acquired lands excludes areas within national parks, national..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Agency Data Gaps and Ensuring Safety for Native Communities Act” or the...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · May 21, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE RAYMOND WELCH "I would first like to thank Congressman Darrell Issa for his strong support of the Brona Band of Mission Indians and for introducing this legislation. H.R. 8483 would transfer 714 acres of land that is currently owned by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to the Brona Band in trust. This land is located adjacent to the existing Brona Reservation near Ramona, California in San Diego County and has deep cultural and historical significance to our tribe. The Brona Band of Mission Indians resides on the 7,500-acre Brona Indian Reservation located in San Diego County, about 30..."
CRS Report
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Gaming on “Indian Lands”
InFocus · Dec 17, 2025
Overview In the 1970s, some federally recognized Tribes (hereinafter “Tribes”) established bingo gaming to raise funding for tribal government operations. At that time, there was no statutory...
CRS Report
The Federal Land Management Agencies
Resources · Oct 7, 2024
The Property Clause in the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, Section 3, clause 2) provides Congress the authority to acquire, dispose of, and manage federal property. Currently, approximately 640...
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"will make necessary adjustments to the 2010 law to better enable the Crow Tribe of Montana to implement its long-standing water rights settlement. The legislation will provide flexibility to deliver a reliable water supply to the Crow Indian Reservation and extend the tribe's exclusive right to develop hydropower without requiring additional federal funding. We'll also consider Mr. Amadei's Northern Nevada Economic Development Conservation Act, which combines various land management proposals..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE TERRY SAYRE
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"My daughter, who is Miss Tulare County, had her fundraiser there. My colonist group used to have a pancake breakfast every fair day there. So I'm totally invested in seeing this revisionary, outdated federal act of Congress to let us purchase this land from the railroad, which has taken us some time to get them to also be willing to let that land go, that we can use it. And the city has not wanted to restore the building when we didn't own the land because the railroad at any moment could come..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"most likely. And we have taken some monumental steps to improve that situation. So just as an example, in the case you bring up, the law requires NEPA review for anything like cheatgrass spraying on federal land. And NEPA had been conducted and was approved and was an approved use on Forest Service lands, but the NEPA wasn't done on the BLM lands. And so literally, you could spray and apply this treatment to a cancer of the West on one piece of federal land, but you had to at the border because..."
Testimony NEGUSE, JOE
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"You're probably familiar with this, but essentially the Forest Service has just recently made some announcements regarding the Maroon Bells scenic area. There's a lot of backlog with respect to deferred maintenance and the Forest Service essentially said that they will no longer or are looking for arrangements to be able to offload the management of the scenic area to private or public parties. And while I have every belief that Pitkin County, of course, would be a trusted steward of Maroon..."
Testimony SPEAKER_15
Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to e...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"surprised when, although it's the second time it's happened, where I see the VA opposing legislation after I read the testimony, preparing for a hearing. That's a little disheartening to me, but I just like to get some clarity because I read some of the testimony, some of the opposition, the reasons for the opposition and one of them that I really have to, I have to address right away because I think it might be a misunderstanding. First of all, this is not a mandate on federal land management...."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"the unification, represents the unification of the firefighting portion of the U.S. Forest Service, which currently resides under the USDA, to have that fifth firefighting group also come under this structure. So that's reflected in the budget. What we have across these five firefighting groups today is we've got courageous young men and women, well-trained and capable to go out and fight fires. Think of it as the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, but we don't have a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"year. A key component of firefighting on the federal level, because the fire doesn't know whether it's on federal land, state land, private land, and it doesn't know if it's on Bureau of Land Management uses Fish and Wildlife versus National Park versus Forest Service, and yet we have had completely separate entities. And I think of it like we've got the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, but we had no Joint Chiefs of Staff. So part of the proposal on the wildland fire is to establish a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_02
Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fi...
senate Appropriations Committee · Apr 22, 2026
"year. A key component of firefighting on the federal level, because the fire doesn't know whether it's on federal land, state land, private land, and it doesn't know if it's on Bureau of Land Management uses Fish and Wildlife versus National Park versus Forest Service, and yet we have had completely separate entities. And I think of it like we've got the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, but we had no Joint Chiefs of Staff. So part of the proposal on the wildland fire is to establish a..."
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"an act and piece of legislation that Secretary Burgum has praised as well. This is a model for land disposal like states in the West where there's a lot of federal land. What it does is it prioritizes disposal through a process that targets parcels based on local need and utilizes land sale revenue for conservation, for infrastructure, for recreation, for education in the state in which the land sales took place. I have introduced legislation to expand that disposal boundary to the benefit of..."
Testimony HUFFMAN, JARED
Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"about here, our park rangers and other public servants. Over the past 18 months, every land management agency has experienced a devastating loss of staff at parks and public lands all over the country. We must address agency staffing if we're going to truly keep faith with America's best idea. We must also ensure that our national parks and our public lands tell the whole story of American history, including our complicated past and our shared future, and especially doing that on the eve of our..."
Testimony MALOY, CELESTE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"issues that really matter to our constituents. He's a fierce and relentless advocate when it comes to public land management. I'm sympathetic to the complexities of public land management in a state where public land acres have a super majority of the acres so it's my pleasure to offer this amendment on behalf of my friend and neighbor Mr. Amadei and with that I yield"
Testimony BISHOP, SANFORD D.
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"than $34 million annual tax revenue, as well as support over 3,000 jobs through visitor activity and tourism. It also includes provisions that allow the Secretary of Interior, upon request, to take approximately 133.88 acres of land held by the Muscogee Creek Nation into trust as a part of Muscogee Creek Reservation. It's currently under a conservation easement, and gaming is prohibited on the land. Again, I want to thank the Subcommittee of Federal Lands for inviting Representative Scott and..."
Testimony LUMMIS, CYNTHIA M.
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"the biologic treatment on federal land. And, of course, in this area, they're all peppered. Federal land, state land, private land, they're all interspersed. What are you doing to try to implement collective federalism where if there's an effort by a"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"know, the revenues from federal timber auctions are divided between the local communities. 25% is supposed to go to the local communities as compensation for all of that public land off their tax rolls, and the other 75% goes back in the Forest Service. Well, just that 25% cut is 30 billion dollars. That's almost four times what we dole out in PILT and Secure Rural Schools funding, for example. Yes, sir. But the fault of the condition of these lands is ours because of the laws that we passed..."
Testimony STAUBER, PETE
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"They're also supported by the local communities along with the local forest management, but after years, they are still waiting in limbo. What is the Forest Service doing to reform the administrative land transfer and land conveyance process to ensure this backlog is dealt with across the national forest system and ensure it doesn't take half a decade or more to complete an administrative land transfer or conveyance? The late Winnie"
Testimony STANSBURY, MELANIE A.
Oversight hearing titled “The State of Our Nation’s Federal Forests an...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 4, 2026
"We ask you to please listen to our people. And finally, I want to impress upon you that we have a bill that we are trying to get through this legislative body that would protect over 100,000 acres of Forest Service land and BLM land that is sacred to our Pueblos and to our land grants in New Mexico in the Rio Grande Gorge, which we call the Caja del Rio, which is just south of Santa"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026
"First, Mr. Secretary, sometimes you refer to the federal estate as, in terms, compared to a balance sheet. Do you agree that if we focus only on acquiring more land as we have a maintenance backlog, that can throw off the balance? If we acquire new land at the expense of maintaining the land we've already got. In other words, there's a need to maintain a balance there between land acquisition and land"
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"has been nominated to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. If confirmed, he will become the steward of more than 244 million surface acres of public land and another 700 million acres of subsurface minerals. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the law that established the Bureau of Land Management, prescribes how the Director is to perform his important"
Testimony KING, ANGUS S., JR.
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"strikes me as, A, not in the public interest because we need that electricity, and B, it establishes a terrible precedent for the federal even-handed regulation, if you will, of energy sources. Yeah, but you're going to be a policy advisor. You're going to be the head of public lands, and we're talking about development on public lands. I presume somebody's going to ask you your opinion. Do you think it's a good idea to basically say we can do one kind of development on public lands and not..."
Testimony DAINES, STEVE
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"11 years old from my grandpa Dane's as a kid growing up in Montana, but 75% of our fishing access sites were funded by LWCF. We have access to these amazing rivers and streams because of the land and water conservation fund, and it's been successfully used to unlock access to public lands that prior were inaccessible due to checkerboard land ownership. Under President Trump, in fact, we permanently authorized and funded LWCF in that very bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act that many said was..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine the nominations of Stevan Pearce, of New Mexico, t...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Feb 25, 2026
"And it is a bipartisan. I know Senator Risch especially was passionate earlier in the hearing today. From a California perspective, the Bureau of Land Management manages nearly 15% of California's land mass. So it's critical for us that BLM and the BLM Director maintain these lands for future generations to enjoy and not just need to sell them to the highest bidder. These BLM lands in California include Chukwala National"
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"I will be opposing this amendment. Senator Daines' bill follows the precedent that's established by the Northern Cheyenne Lands Act with a similar acre-for-acre land exchange. The approach has been agreed to by the parties to the land exchange and I think changing the terms now without support from the parties or input from the implementing agency would only serve to delay implementation and withhold long-overdue relief for the tribe. Further discussion on this amendment? Seeing none, is there..."
Testimony TOM SCHULTZ
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Bring in landowners and ask them for their thoughts and opinions. And that's what we did at this markets matter discussion. But I think there's a role. It's not just federal lands. The federal land component is there where we can provide certainty of supply to those mills and those areas. We need to do that. But outside of that, a lot of the land in the south, for instance, which is the wood basket of the country, about 45% of the lumber that we produce in this country comes from the southeast,..."
Testimony DREW ENDY
Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, stand...
senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I was privileged to grow up in Pennsylvania near Valley Forge while this nation went on a technology innovation run, from genetic engineering to Internet to email to touchscreens to CRISPR to generative AI, you name it. If I had grown up in Buenos Aires, I would have looked to the United States and concluded that the United States was magic land, the place where magical innovations come from. What is this faraway place? I simply would have to get there. The thing that is at risk, in my opinion,..."
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"partial compensation for the tax base that Washington, D.C. has removed from them. I emphasize they are partial, and for many small counties, the current pilt payments remain woefully inadequate. A county may have relatively few residents while maintaining an enormous amount of federally controlled land and a correspondingly small amount of private land from which tax revenue could be derived. Its population alone may not reflect the cost of providing services across that land, and in countless..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"These threats have united local governments, tribes, traditional historic communities, and community organizations of all stripes to preserve the shared yet distinct heritages of the region. And as a result, we have the Caja del Rio Protection Act. This bill will create two new stewardship areas, a new special management area on over 67,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land, and a new national conservation area on over 17,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land. It will permit traditional..."
Testimony JENIFER DAVIDSON
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Senate Bill 4200. Douglas County is home to the state's first town and its first ranches, but most of the land in our county is federally owned, and for decades that has constrained our ability to manage lands for stormwater and flood protection and to access lands for recreation. Our goals through this bill are clear. Advance flood control and stormwater management, preserve open space, enhance recreation, protect the rural character and quality of life, safeguard the floodplain, and honor the..."
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"In Nevada, and particularly in Douglas County, and we've seen this throughout the lands bills in Nevada, quite often people don't realize, many stakeholders come out when we're talking about lands bills because everybody wants to be a part of the management of the land. And particularly as we're talking about Douglas County, there's 50,000 people that live there, but 60% of the land is managed by the federal government. It's been a challenge for many counties and many local governments to deal..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026
"field hearing here in my hometown of beautiful Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. I'm going to take a moment of personal privilege just to explain a little bit about the Natural Resources Committee and the work that we're doing here today. This is a standing committee in the United States House of Representatives. My name is Bruce Westerman. I'm the congressman from this area, born and raised in Hot Springs, and I got the great honor of being the chairman of the committee this year. The..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
• H.R. 3276 (Rep. Dingell), “Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewards...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"country. We are restoring access to a culturally significant tribal site, boosting local economies through energy production, strengthening our military preparedness, while ensuring multiple use on public land and more. H.R. 3925, the Yehovah the Autumn of San Emmanuel National Land Exchange Act, that's a mouthful, introduced by Representative Obernolte, will direct an exchange of land between the tribe and the San Bernardino National Forest to better connect the reservation with Arrowhead..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
• H.R. 3276 (Rep. Dingell), “Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewards...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"from further consideration of H.R. 3925, the Uhavatam of San Manuel Nation Land Exchange Act, without objection. So ordered, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 7882, to provide the leasing of certain deposits of minerals located within the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico, without objection. So ordered, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Federal Lands be discharged from further consideration of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"whether national defense or, for that matter, flood control. I am concerned, however, that this bill also opens up hard rock mining on lands that were acquired with funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund or from FLPFA, the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act. These funds acquire public lands for conservation and for recreational use. But because they are acquired lands, minerals on them are governed by the Mineral Leasing Act for acquired lands, the law of this underlying bill..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Many LWCF rec access projects are just effectively regular BLM or Forest Service land, but they facilitate those access points. My amendment simply ensures that lands acquired for the public with Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars or FLPFA funds, lands acquired for the purpose of recreation, conservation and wildlife habitat, are not unintentionally open to hard rock mining by this bill. I know that was not the sponsor's intent, but if we can adopt this amendment, it will close a..."
Testimony SPEAKER_18
An oversight hearing to examine the Colorado river basin, including po...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"it directs the money received from the sale to a special fund in the Treasury. That fund was created by the CISC Act and it was used to acquire replacement national forest land in the state where land sale produced or where the land sale produced those revenues. So in this case, because H.R."
Testimony SPEAKER_20
An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Requ...
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Historically, permitting has been hard. Permitting is always wildly harder on federal lands than on private lands or state lands. And geothermal resources are dominated out west, so there's so much of them are on federal lands. That held back geothermal in the"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land in...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Unfortunately, when the United States took control of the region in 1848, the Las Vegas Paiutes were pushed out of most of their traditional homelands. Congress created the Snow Mountain Reservation in 1983, and I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to anyone that it was only a fraction of the lands that the tribe had once called home. H.R. 6917 will expand the Snow Mountain Reservation, reinstating 3,150 acres of Bureau of Land Management land back to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. That land is of..."
Testimony SPEAKER_01
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land in...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"I mean, I challenge any of you to go up to northern Las Vegas. It's not a, and in fairness, most of the places, the territories where we've been sent to aren't places where many people want to go, right, and the economy in northern Las Vegas does not exist if it weren't for the success of the Las Vegas Paiute and what they've been able to do with their lands and returning their lands back to them, and so the notion that they've been waiting 12, 15 plus years to get this land back, which for..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE RAYMOND WELCH
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"I would first like to thank Congressman Darrell Issa for his strong support of the Brona Band of Mission Indians and for introducing this legislation. H.R. 8483 would transfer 714 acres of land that is currently owned by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to the Brona Band in trust. This land is located adjacent to the existing Brona Reservation near Ramona, California in San Diego County and has deep cultural and historical significance to our tribe. The Brona Band of..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE RAYMOND WELCH
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"H.R. 8483 would transfer into trust 714 acres of land that is adjacent to the Brona Reservation as shown in the map attached to our testimony. Taking these federal lands into trust represents an opportunity to correct, in part, that historical injustice and will allow us to once again serve as primary steward of lands we know intimately, lands we have cared for across generations. Essentially, at its core, this request is about restoring a connection that was never truly broken, only..."
Testimony ISSA, DARRELL
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"in fact, saves the federal government money. Verona will maintain this land as the tribal land and ancestral land, and in fact, be good stewards of it for, among other things, fire"
Testimony ERVIN CARLSON
Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 1010 (Rep. Leger Fernandez), “Bridging Ag...
house Natural Resources Committee · May 21, 2026
"So the long-term impact would just help, just as I mentioned before, of helping them, tribes, you know, who are real, especially in our southwest area. We talked about this morning that the land base to them is, some of them is small. So we would help them with, we're always looking for a larger land base for them, whether it be leasing or purchasing some other lands. And helping with that funding and helping with that infrastructure"
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"Good morning, and welcome to all of you. Today, we're holding a hearing on how exactly the Bureau of Land Management plans land use under the Federal Land Management Policy Act, also known as"
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"says something pretty simple. It says that the Bureau of Land Management should look at the lands it manages and decide how to manage those lands for multiple uses. The BLM has a complicated"
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"forestry and recreation and cultural resource preservation on the lands that it manages. Now, one approach could be a free-for-all. Whoever puts the land to use first gets to decide what happens there going forward. And our nation did that for a long time, giving away public land via homesteading, mining claims, granting lands to railroads to facilitate western expansion. But conservationists like Teddy Roosevelt began to recognize that if we kept going down that path, we'd have no public lands..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"for about 20 years. The BLM has not been able to keep up with revisions to keep these plans aligned with today's priorities and technologies. Some plans in place now were written well before utility-scale solar was common and few are ready to facilitate the increase in geothermal energy production that's on the horizon. Many current plans don't accommodate the explosion in outdoor recreation that our public lands now host. Recreation on public lands is now an economic powerhouse, generating..."
Testimony ADAM CRAMER
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"especially at the local level, with critical input from local communities, their elected officials, as well as consultation with tribal governments. Now, BLM also needs reliable and current information. And to that end, I commend Congress, and this committee in particular, for the bipartisan work that led to the unanimous passage of the Explore Act last year, which directs BLM and other land management agencies to inventory for recreation resources and values to support better agency decision..."
Testimony MICAH CHRISTENSEN
Hearings to examine how the BLM land use planning process under the Fe...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"So we have different surface ownership, maybe than mineral ownership. We also have in holdings inside of some of these areas. So anytime that the federal government through an RMP or another rule restricts some sort of use on federal land, there's often a restriction that also occurs on state and private land as well, further limiting our ability to develop resources, access certain lands. And so there's a big impact. The Rock Springs RMP estimated, based on their preferred alternative, was..."
Hearing Markup of H.R. 9250 (Rep. Westerman), “Great American Outdoors Act 250”
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
BENTZ, CLIFF "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for this bill, which I strongly support. I just want to mention one thing about, maybe two things, about language in the bill talking about the nature of an asset, and it says the term asset means any real property, and that goes on to say including. And the reason I find that important is because in my district back in Oregon, there are 15.7 million acres of BLM land, and that land is included in the definition of asset. The improvement to the land or the maintenance of the land includes invasive species. Much of this land has been, unfortunately, invaded by..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
senate Environment and Public Works Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
THE HONORABLE BRIAN NESVIK "most likely. And we have taken some monumental steps to improve that situation. So just as an example, in the case you bring up, the law requires NEPA review for anything like cheatgrass spraying on federal land. And NEPA had been conducted and was approved and was an approved use on Forest Service lands, but the NEPA wasn't done on the BLM lands. And so literally, you could spray and apply this treatment to a cancer of the West on one piece of federal land, but you had to at the border because the NEPA wasn't approved. Our new NEPA regulations eliminate that."
Hearing Hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Interior.
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_02 "the unification, represents the unification of the firefighting portion of the U.S. Forest Service, which currently resides under the USDA, to have that fifth firefighting group also come under this structure. So that's reflected in the budget. What we have across these five firefighting groups today is we've got courageous young men and women, well-trained and capable to go out and fight fires. Think of it as the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, but we don't have a joint chiefs of staff. We find ourselves when a fire doesn't understand the difference between state..."
Hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. Forest Service"
house Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
TOM SCHULTZ "Bring in landowners and ask them for their thoughts and opinions. And that's what we did at this markets matter discussion. But I think there's a role. It's not just federal lands. The federal land component is there where we can provide certainty of supply to those mills and those areas. We need to do that. But outside of that, a lot of the land in the south, for instance, which is the wood basket of the country, about 45% of the lumber that we produce in this country comes from the southeast, just so we're tracking. You look at the hardwood"
Hearing • H.R. 3276 (Rep. Dingell), “Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2025” • H.R. 3925 (Rep. Obernolte), “Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
WESTERMAN, BRUCE "country. We are restoring access to a culturally significant tribal site, boosting local economies through energy production, strengthening our military preparedness, while ensuring multiple use on public land and more. H.R. 3925, the Yehovah the Autumn of San Emmanuel National Land Exchange Act, that's a mouthful, introduced by Representative Obernolte, will direct an exchange of land between the tribe and the San Bernardino National Forest to better connect the reservation with Arrowhead Springs, a culturally significant site for the tribe. The conveyances will reduce checkerboard land..."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 6917 (Rep. Titus) To take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians. H.R. 8473...
house Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_00 "Unfortunately, when the United States took control of the region in 1848, the Las Vegas Paiutes were pushed out of most of their traditional homelands. Congress created the Snow Mountain Reservation in 1983, and I'm sure it'll come as no surprise to anyone that it was only a fraction of the lands that the tribe had once called home. H.R. 6917 will expand the Snow Mountain Reservation, reinstating 3,150 acres of Bureau of Land Management land back to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. That land is of great historical and spiritual importance to the tribe as their ancestors traveled across it back and..."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Literally every community in the state at that ownership percentage is surrounded by federal land. So if you want land for a cemetery, or you want land for a park, or you want to convey to a tribe where the county commission has negotiated and agreed, you have to come to this committee and to Congress to do that. So I want to allay any"
Testimony SPEAKER_11
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"That was the idea. The idea also was to prevent railroads from blocking up federal land, so they cleverly divided the townships into alternating square miles of ownership. One square mile to the railroad, and another square mile remaining public. The concept being that the railroads sell that property to private individuals, and that would drive up the value of the federal land retained, and they then would sell, we would then sell that federal land retained to help get our money back from what..."
Testimony SPEAKER_11
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"surrounded by this checkerboard pattern that prevents any kind of economic development. I support federal land remaining federal, but I don't support causing the paupership of people in our states, which is exactly what this structure is doing. The idea here in this bill is to fix that, and it's, again, it has to be viewed in sense of the scale that's involved, 59 million acres of federal land in just Nevada, and this bill would address some extraordinarily small part of that in a very clever..."
Testimony MALOY, CELESTE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"I'm offering this amendment to the ANS at the request of the bill's sponsor Mr. Amadei. It makes minor changes based on technical feedback from the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management as well as small revisions requested by the minority. Specifically the amendment clarifies which secretary is identified for titles that include U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. It removes duplicative language, ensures reference maps are properly identified, and at the request of the..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"or the AWRC Act of 2025. Without objection, so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2827 to provide for the equitable settlements of certain Indian land disputes regarding the land in Illinois and for other purposes, and H.R. 8658, the Indian Health Services Emergency Claims Parity Act. Without objection, so ordered. I now ask unanimous consent that the following measures be approved and..."
Testimony WESTERMAN, BRUCE
• H.R. 726 (Rep. Downing), “Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendme...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Illinois and for other purposes, and H.R. 8658, the Indian Health Services Emergency Claims Parity Act. Without objection, so ordered. I now ask unanimous consent that the following measures be approved and favorably reported as described to the House of Representatives, H.R. 2406, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2025, H.R. 2827, to provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian tribe or certain Indian land..."
Testimony MALOY, CELESTE
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"the Utah-Colorado border just days ago. Even as firefighters continue battling these devastating fires, this subcommittee will continue advancing policies that reduce catastrophic fire risk and give land managers the tools they need to protect forests, communities and those on the front lines. When these blazes are under control, we will have a lot of work to do on the subcommittee, rewriting policies that have made catastrophic fires like these more common on federal lands. Before I discuss..."
Testimony RANDALL, EMILY
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"H.R. 9248 from Rep Herd, the Recreation and Permitting Act aims to improve the permitting process by adding certain recreation projects to the FAST 41 program and we fully support enhancing recreational opportunities but I'm interested to learn how recreation is an appropriate sector to be included as a covered infrastructure in this particular permitting scheme and I'm excited to learn more in this hearing. In nearly every committee hearing I take a minute to talk about staffing and agency..."
Testimony MCCLINTOCK, TOM
Legislative hearing on: • H.R. 1693 (Rep. Hageman), To redesignate the...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 1, 2026
"the opportunity to discuss this bill the Akerson Meadowland Interchange Act. The bill is a straightforward proposal to improve stewardship over Akerson Meadow in the Sierra Nevada. It would transfer administrative jurisdiction over approximately 160 acres of national forest system land to Yosemite National Park and it would also transfer approximately 170 acres of park system land to be part of the Stanislaus National Forest. Senator Padilla is carrying identical legislation in the Senate. We..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"The bill would support the pueblos' continued efforts to transform a site associated with a difficult federal history into a center for education, health care, cultural preservation, government services, and economic development. And then finally, the Pitt River Land Transfer Act from Senator Padilla and the late Representative LaMalfa would transfer to the Department of Interior the culturally significant Four Corners property currently managed by the Forest Service and related tribal fee..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"benefits. In response this amendment sets a profit floor guaranteeing that the tribe gets no less than 44 percent or 100 million dollars over 10 years whichever is greater. It also guarantees that Muscle Shell County get at least 12 percent to replace the lost royalty revenues which are currently about 12 and a half percent with the remainder going to the Hope Family Trust. This isn't asking anyone to give up more than they've already agreed to share. It simply requires that the terms be..."
Testimony SCHATZ, BRIAN
Business meeting to consider S.239, to take certain mineral interests ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Aug 5, 2026
"The amendment is not agreed to. Are there further amendments? Yes. I'd like to bring up KAT 26540. 26506. This is so simple. Any land exchange, public sector, private sector, you need an appraisal. This requires an appraisal. The Interior Department, and I want everyone to hear this. The Interior Department, this Interior Department stated for the record that quote, it is unclear whether the parcels to be conveyed are of equal value and quote, the department has recommended that the proposed..."
Testimony BAIRD, JAMES R.
"For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from Chief Tom Schultz, U.S. F...
house Agriculture Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And Mr. Chairman, I yield back. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member. You know, my question deals with the fact that, and you mentioned earlier that a lot of the land, the forest land around the country is owned by private landowners, like 90, 95%. But anyway, they use the same kind of tools that we use in, because they probably got a lot of the other farmland as"
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"American Energy Abundance, strengthens our economy, supports our allies, and limits the leverage of hostile regimes. Mr. Farzad's background has prepared him to advance American energy interests abroad, protect classified department work from malign foreign influence, and help achieve American energy independence. During their confirmation hearings, each of these nominees demonstrated competence and a firm grasp of the challenges they will face. Each is uniquely qualified to serve in the..."
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Pilt cannot fully correct that inequality, but Congress should ensure the program better reflects the real costs imposed on rural communities. So I applaud Senators Daines and Cortez Masto for advancing this bill. I also want to recognize Senator Murkowski's work on the Alaska Native Landless Equity Act. When Congress enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, five southeast Alaska Native communities—Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tanaki, and Wrangell—were excluded from..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"To remedy all of this, we have been working, again, for years, for decades, really, to complete this settlement and to allow for the formation of five what we call urban Native corporations. We, in this legislation, specify the exact parcels of land that would fulfill these Native communities' land entitlements. And believe me, that's not an easy process. We had to vet these parcels. We had to solicit, address the local"
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"So I mentioned the outreach that we have been engaged in. At the beginning, it was very much viewed as a fight between giving back federal land into the hands of individuals, the environmental concerns were expressed that, oh, we're going to allow for an untrammeled environmental degradation of the land and lots of concerns and I think a lot of scare tactics that were"
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"I understand your view towards conservation and we respect those. The concern that we have from so many back home is that when we're looking at an area where we already have so much of our land that is federal, so much of our lands that are already in conservation status, there's just not a lot left over. And so again, making sure that we can get ourselves to a good place with this is most appreciated. I appreciate your willingness to have this measure move out by voice"
Testimony CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The bill is a culmination of the extensive collaboration between local officials stretching back to 2009, with the earliest bill being introduced in 2013. This bill includes the support of Nevada's entire delegation, including Congressman Mark Camaday in the House, and it also represents the Nevada style of legislating our local land management needs, bringing people together, identifying land use needs, and making compromises. It includes support from local government, the local business..."
Testimony HEINRICH, MARTIN
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"It prevents new rights-of-way, giving the land an opportunity to heal in this brittle area, and taken together, these measures will protect the Caja for generations to come. This bill also begins a new chapter in the stewardship of this land, one that includes opportunities for tribes, traditional historic communities, to have a voice in land management plans. This bill recognizes that stewardship works best when it is shared. I'd like to thank everyone who worked with my office in developing..."
Testimony LEAH BAKER
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The BLM manages approximately 245 million acres of public lands, mostly in the 12 western United States, and 700 million acres of subsurface mineral estate throughout the country. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act, or FLPMA, sets forth the BLM's mission of multiple use, which directs that public lands be managed for a broad range of uses, such as energy development, livestock grazing, timber production, hunting, fishing, and recreation. Under the administration, the BLM is managing the..."
Testimony LEAH BAKER
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"affordable and reliable high-speed Internet. It expedites the review and approval of broadband applications on federal lands. The BLM supports S.4561 as it aligns with the administration's priorities to cut red tape and accelerate approvals for infrastructure projects. Finally, while the BLM supports several land conveyances proposed in the bills on today's agenda, the BLM does not support the special designations and withdrawals as they conflict with the administration's energy and mineral..."
Testimony JOHN CROCKETT
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to review and evaluate a range of policy and related to mining and mineral exploration on federal lands. S.4561, the Close the Gap Act, would require federal agencies to issue new regulations and intended to streamline the process for broad land applications on federal lands. The USDA appreciates Congressional efforts to reduce the regulatory burden and streamline the permitting process. Both H.R. 4090 and S.4561 would support the..."
Testimony JOHN CROCKETT
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"The Department supports both of these bills. H.R. 655, the Dalles Watershed Development Act, seeks to simplify the administrative requirements for the City of Dalles, Oregon, to operate its municipal reservoir. The City of Dalles Municipal Watershed includes the Crow Creek Dam and its reservoir, a portion of which is on the National Forest System land on the Mount Hood National Forest. Conveying this land would eliminate the City's need for a special use permit and the associated work for the..."
Testimony JENIFER DAVIDSON
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"S-4200 conveys land so that we can manage the alluvial fans that carry stormwater from the Pine Nut Mountains into our communities. Today, the federal government lacks the staff and resources to build this infrastructure itself. The county has actively pursued administrative solutions to access the land we need through BLM's Recreation and Public Purposes Act. That leasing process works acre by acre and would take years, even decades, that we do not have to complete. That is precisely why..."
Testimony LEAH BAKER
Hearings to examine S.1791, to designate certain special management ar...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"Thank you, ma'am. As a matter of policy, the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management doesn't support broad wilderness designation because of the restrictive use that it places on the lands that we manage, preventing potential mineral development, preventing various means of public access, et"
Testimony BENNET, MICHAEL F.
Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural ...
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026
"that strengthens rural hospitals instead of pushing them into bankruptcy, which we're doing today. That ensures the next generation will be able to build a future in the communities where they grew up rather than being forced to take a job somewhere else. And it's in that context that I bring up my amendment, number six. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would reverse the underlying bill's cuts to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP, and the Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP...."
Testimony LEE, MIKE
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And yet, many of these remain stalled because a few Senate Democrats are deliberately creating a backlog of non-controversial bills to create a contrived justification for bundling them into a massive lands package filled with unrelated priorities, including massive federal land grabs that could not independently pass on their own. I said this before, and I'll say it"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And it's in that spirit that I want to make clear that I don't have any policy or substantive concerns with your bill. I believe we should be allowing tribes to play a more active role in co-managing our public lands as they have been the stewards of these lands since time immemorial. However, my colleagues and I have said repeatedly during numerous markups that we would like to see more conservation bills considered by the committee. Let the members vote how they will, but have more..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Business meeting to consider S.365 and H.R.1729, bills to amend the Jo...
senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"However, my colleagues and I have said repeatedly during numerous markups that we would like to see more conservation bills considered by the committee. Let the members vote how they will, but have more conservation bills considered by the committee. And while the Geese House Site Conveyance Act would convey over 21,000 acres of National Park Service land, my Joshua Tree National Park Expansion Act, as Senator Heinrich has mentioned, would convey a similar amount of Bureau of Land Management..."
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"land when Agua Caliente's reservation was created. The Agua Caliente's land is held in a distinct checkerboard pattern of land ownership, interspersed with railroad and private property. As you might imagine, it has been quite challenging to resolve how to manage groundwater that is overlaid by multiple checkerboard landowners, all of whose actions affect the groundwater below, not just their own property, but also their"
Testimony PADILLA, ALEX
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Water Rights Settlement Act would ratify this agreement. This bill also includes provisions to establish a fund to support critical water infrastructure investments as part of the settlement and to transfer additional land administered by the Bureau of Land Management into trust for the tribe. And before I conclude, I just want to highlight the broad support for this bill. I'd like to enter into the record 11 letters of support ranging from the state..."
Testimony THE HONORABLE JEFF GRUBBE
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"legislation, S. 4368. Thank you to Senators Padilla and Schiff for sponsoring this historic legislation. The bill secures a water supply for Ahwa Kalente and strengthens tribal self-sufficiency and water security for Ahwa Kalente and the entire Coachella Valley. For millennia, my tribe has inhabited land in and around Palm Springs, California. Our reservation is checkerboarded with reservation trust lands mixed with non-Indian fee land. Today, our reservation is 34,000 acres and includes large..."
Testimony MURKOWSKI, LISA
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"although the bill provides that water rights associated with the transferred lands are not added to the tribe's quantified settlement water rights. So why does the tribe need these particular BLM lands transferred into trust and why is the land transfer an important part of the water rights settlement? Okay, all right, thank you for"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CATALINA CHACON
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you, Chairwoman, Chairman Murkowski, for the question. Yes. So first, in 2016, when we originally, our water settlement was enacted, Pechanga's gone through some land and trust areas. So we can't get our groundwater to those areas. We purchased contiguous lands to our reservation for critical tribal housing. Well, we came into a snag because we can't get water"
Testimony THE HONORABLE CATALINA CHACON
Hearings to examine S.3573, to amend the Aamodt Litigation Settlement ...
senate Indian Affairs Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Chairman, our ancestral lands have been minimized over the years. We are not a huge land-based tribe, and that's why we try to purchase any contiguous land that we can on our reservation. Our people want to come home. Water is life to"
Testimony THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN
Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the A...
house Foreign Affairs Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Give up all these places. Okay? So, you know, everything that makes you Jewish is in the land the Palestinians want. Because, by the way, they want to destroy every connection the Jewish people have to this land. So just do"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Yet somehow Ghislaine Maxwell has more privileges than people who aren't accused of going out and sexually assaulting children. This is why we have a problem, because it seems like our colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue to want to protect pedophiles while at the same time going after people, most of them who have come to this country seeking a better life, seeking the America that we sell to the rest of the world, which is the land of opportunity and the land of the free. That..."
Testimony TV / VIDEO
“Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Re...
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Before we begin, let us pause to acknowledge with gratitude the Native peoples on whose land we gather today. These are the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway people, joined by the Nacotchtank and the Powermonkey tribes, and of course their descendants. We acknowledge the Native peoples, more broadly, of the Americas. Wherever you are, at this moment, give thanks to the first people on whose land we live, love, struggle, and work. At this moment, give thanks to the first peoples on whose..."
Testimony SPEAKER_10
Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"You know, CFIUS plays a key role. It obviously is the law of the land and will follow the law of the land. I know the Secretary has talked about the Board of Investment as an additional screen to make it even more difficult on top of CFIUS. Well, thank you so much for the question, Senator. I don't think we've seen it yet. We've seen a lot of benefits. We've seen over 63 million Americans take advantage of the President's four new"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Con...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"have died in immigration detention, many due to abuse and medical neglect. Now, as the number looms large and as their moves to try to undermine elections and pay off insurrectionists are being blocked by federal judges across the land, they're desperately casting about for someone to blame for the problems they have themselves caused. And today, it seems the blame is landing on state and local prosecutors and, once again, everybody's favorite whipping post, so called sanctuary jurisdictions...."
Testimony SPEAKER_06
Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackl...
house Natural Resources Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"I have an answer to the jurisdictional problem. And actually we do. It's submitted in our written testimony. You can turn on your mic, please. Thank you. It's actually submitted in our written testimony, a link and an actual fix to the jurisdictional issue. Like I told you before, in Indian country, even 280 states. But in our reservation, if you have a highway going down the road and one side is trust land and one side is deeded land, the person going on this side, if he's a non-Indian and the..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; Gene...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026
"stop the U.S. Army Corps from promulgating or enforcing any firearm prohibitions at water resources development projects so long as the person is not otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm and subject to state law. This would harmonize USACE's treatment of firearm possession land agencies such as the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. USACE's proposed rolling back its broad-based firearm possession prohibition during the end of President Trump's first term, but this action..."
Hearing Hearings to examine S.749, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend increased dependency and indemnity compensation paid to surviving...
senate Veterans' Affairs Committee · Apr 29, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_15 "surprised when, although it's the second time it's happened, where I see the VA opposing legislation after I read the testimony, preparing for a hearing. That's a little disheartening to me, but I just like to get some clarity because I read some of the testimony, some of the opposition, the reasons for the opposition and one of them that I really have to, I have to address right away because I think it might be a misunderstanding. First of all, this is not a mandate on federal land management. So I know there was a reference, well we're not the right agency, it should be the Department of..."
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Energy.
senate Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "year. A key component of firefighting on the federal level, because the fire doesn't know whether it's on federal land, state land, private land, and it doesn't know if it's on Bureau of Land Management uses Fish and Wildlife versus National Park versus Forest Service, and yet we have had completely separate entities. And I think of it like we've got the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, but we had no Joint Chiefs of Staff. So part of the proposal on the wildland fire is to establish a unification of decision structure at the very top about how do we use aviation"
Hearing Hearings to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of the Treasury.
senate Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · Apr 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_02 "year. A key component of firefighting on the federal level, because the fire doesn't know whether it's on federal land, state land, private land, and it doesn't know if it's on Bureau of Land Management uses Fish and Wildlife versus National Park versus Forest Service, and yet we have had completely separate entities. And I think of it like we've got the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, but we had no Joint Chiefs of Staff. So part of the proposal on the wildland fire is to establish a unification of decision structure at the very top about how do we use aviation"
Hearing Hearings to examine measuring what matters, focusing on science, standards, and strategic competition.
senate Space and Science · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
DREW ENDY "I was privileged to grow up in Pennsylvania near Valley Forge while this nation went on a technology innovation run, from genetic engineering to Internet to email to touchscreens to CRISPR to generative AI, you name it. If I had grown up in Buenos Aires, I would have looked to the United States and concluded that the United States was magic land, the place where magical innovations come from. What is this faraway place? I simply would have to get there. The thing that is at risk, in my opinion, to my children and their children, is that magic land will not be in the United States. Magic land..."
Hearing Legislative field hearing on a Discussion Draft of the “Great American Outdoors Act 250.” (10:00AM local time)
house Natural Resources Committee · Jun 12, 2026 · Transcript
WESTERMAN, BRUCE "field hearing here in my hometown of beautiful Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. I'm going to take a moment of personal privilege just to explain a little bit about the Natural Resources Committee and the work that we're doing here today. This is a standing committee in the United States House of Representatives. My name is Bruce Westerman. I'm the congressman from this area, born and raised in Hot Springs, and I got the great honor of being the chairman of the committee this year. The Natural Resources Committee has a broad jurisdiction over all of our federal lands, which includes the..."
Hearing An Overview of the Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
house Science, Space, and Technology Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_20 "Historically, permitting has been hard. Permitting is always wildly harder on federal lands than on private lands or state lands. And geothermal resources are dominated out west, so there's so much of them are on federal lands. That held back geothermal in the"
Hearing Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Agricultural Act of 2026".
senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Aug 6, 2026 · Transcript
BENNET, MICHAEL F. "that strengthens rural hospitals instead of pushing them into bankruptcy, which we're doing today. That ensures the next generation will be able to build a future in the communities where they grew up rather than being forced to take a job somewhere else. And it's in that context that I bring up my amendment, number six. Mr. Chairman, this amendment would reverse the underlying bill's cuts to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, EQIP, and the Conservation Stewardship Program, CSP. Farmers and ranchers rely on these programs to reduce costs and remain on the land at a time when..."
Hearing Building a New Regional Security Architecture: The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords
house Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
THE HONORABLE DAVID FRIEDMAN "Give up all these places. Okay? So, you know, everything that makes you Jewish is in the land the Palestinians want. Because, by the way, they want to destroy every connection the Jewish people have to this land. So just do"
Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript
CROCKETT, JASMINE "Yet somehow Ghislaine Maxwell has more privileges than people who aren't accused of going out and sexually assaulting children. This is why we have a problem, because it seems like our colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue to want to protect pedophiles while at the same time going after people, most of them who have come to this country seeking a better life, seeking the America that we sell to the rest of the world, which is the land of opportunity and the land of the free. That is what we have sold the world on, yet seemingly that's not what's happening when they arrive, when..."
Hearing “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past”
house Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript
TV / VIDEO "Before we begin, let us pause to acknowledge with gratitude the Native peoples on whose land we gather today. These are the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway people, joined by the Nacotchtank and the Powermonkey tribes, and of course their descendants. We acknowledge the Native peoples, more broadly, of the Americas. Wherever you are, at this moment, give thanks to the first people on whose land we live, love, struggle, and work. At this moment, give thanks to the first peoples on whose land we're honored to live, love, struggle, and work. Wherever we're viewing this, let us acknowledge..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, Erin Browne, of New York, to be an Under Secretary,...
senate Finance Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_10 "You know, CFIUS plays a key role. It obviously is the law of the land and will follow the law of the land. I know the Secretary has talked about the Board of Investment as an additional screen to make it even more difficult on top of CFIUS. Well, thank you so much for the question, Senator. I don't think we've seen it yet. We've seen a lot of benefits. We've seen over 63 million Americans take advantage of the President's four new"
Hearing H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act; H. Res. 1394, Condemning prosecution policies that give preferential treatment to foreign...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
RASKIN, JAMIE "have died in immigration detention, many due to abuse and medical neglect. Now, as the number looms large and as their moves to try to undermine elections and pay off insurrectionists are being blocked by federal judges across the land, they're desperately casting about for someone to blame for the problems they have themselves caused. And today, it seems the blame is landing on state and local prosecutors and, once again, everybody's favorite whipping post, so called sanctuary jurisdictions. It is the Trump administration that is diming state and local prosecutors and making everybody less..."
Hearing Oversight Hearing on “Innovative Technologies and Initiatives to Tackle the MMIP Crisis in Indian Country”
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_06 "I have an answer to the jurisdictional problem. And actually we do. It's submitted in our written testimony. You can turn on your mic, please. Thank you. It's actually submitted in our written testimony, a link and an actual fix to the jurisdictional issue. Like I told you before, in Indian country, even 280 states. But in our reservation, if you have a highway going down the road and one side is trust land and one side is deeded land, the person going on this side, if he's a non-Indian and the tribal police stop him, they can't cite him or arrest him for anything. Vice versa, on the other..."
Hearing updated Subcommittee Rosters due to changes on the Majority side; General Services Administration Capital Investment and Leasing Program...
house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Jul 14, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_08 "stop the U.S. Army Corps from promulgating or enforcing any firearm prohibitions at water resources development projects so long as the person is not otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm and subject to state law. This would harmonize USACE's treatment of firearm possession land agencies such as the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management. USACE's proposed rolling back its broad-based firearm possession prohibition during the end of President Trump's first term, but this action was never"
Hearing Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections Hearing: “Examining Best Practices for Strengthening Election Security”
house Elections Subcommittee · May 20, 2026 · Transcript
COMMISSIONER BENJAMIN HOVLAND "Thank you. Thank you, Chairwoman Lee, Ranking Member Sewell, and members of the subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss this important topic and the work of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. When Congress created the EAC with the Help a clearinghouse function to look at best practices across the nation, the EAC has embraced this part of our mission in recent years, particularly as election administration has evolved. My colleagues and I work with state and local election officials from all 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia...."
Hearing Legislative Hearing on the following bills: • H.R. 301 (Rep. Maloy), “Geothermal Energy Opportunity Act” or the “GEO Act” • H.R. 398 (Rep....
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Dec 16, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Jon Raby, Bureau of Land Management
Hearing Legislative Hearing on the following bills: • H.R. 280 (Rep. Hageman), “Combatting Obstruction Against Leasing Act of 2025” or the “COAL Act of...
house Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee · Sep 3, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Steve Feldgus, Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Department of the Interior (Retired)
Hearing “Building an AI-Ready America: Safer Workplaces Through Smarter Technology”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Feb 11, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Johan Land, Samsara
Hearing Oversight Hearing on "All in for America250: Public-Private Partnerships Supporting America’s Semiquincentennial on our Public Lands"
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Feb 10, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. I Ling Thompson, Foundation for America's Public Lands
Hearing Oversight Hearing on: "Restoring Multiple Use to Revitalize America’s Public Lands and Rural Communities"
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Feb 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Tim Canterbury, Public Lands Council
Hearing Oversight Hearing Titled: "Understanding the Consequences of Experimental Populations Under the Endangered Species Act"
house Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee · Mar 4, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. Robbie LeValley, Public Lands Council
Hearing "Maximizing Opportunities for Redeveloping Brownfields Sites: Assessing the Potential for New American Innovation."
house Environment Subcommittee · Mar 11, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Ms. Christa Stoneham, Houston Land Bank
Hearing Examining the Impact of EPA’s CERCLA Designation for Two PFAS Chemistries and Potential Policy Responses to Superfund Liability Concerns."
house Environment Subcommittee · Dec 18, 2025 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Lawerence Falbe, International Council of Shopping Centers Environmental and Land Use Policy Committee
Hearing Oversight hearing titled "“EXPLORE America250: Celebrating One Year of the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences Act”
house Federal Lands Subcommittee · Jan 21, 2026 · Request transcript
Witness: Mr. Thomas Heinlein, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
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