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You cannot love EVs and hate lithium mines. This is a national security issue as well as an environmental issue.

I think FPISC having authority to drive that process forward makes a lot of sense.

In order to achieve our environmental goals, we have to build things.

Whenever my staff tells me it's going to take a couple of years to do something--I will share this with you--I always remind them that Eisenhower retook Europe in 11 months.

I think it's important, as I listen to the discussion here today, no one, not a single witness and no one at this dais has talked about lowering environmental standards.

My bill would support these efforts and more by improving NOAA's collaboration with State, local, and Tribal Governments on community vulnerability assessments, research planning, and similar activities related to ocean and coastal…

The problem with that explanation is insurance is based on the principle that the healthy are subsidizing the sick.

In 2018, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Aging Committee on why the costs of insulin was so high.

I think we have a very strange system here because--to say the least, because most of us would think that the rebate, the discount that is negotiated by the PBMs, would largely benefit the consumer at the pharmacy counter.

What we found was a system of getting insulin from the manufacturer to the customer that was rife with perverse incentives, convoluted and opaque.

But you are intent on getting that road open as soon as possible, given that the road itself is an attractive asset.

I hope you will convey to your staff and to the thousands of people that work for the Park Service the compliments of this Committee for the yeoman service that they provide to the country, to their visitors.

We are not talking about a great deal of money, but there is an inequality now that I think it would be helpful to address.

It is a sacred mission and we are delighted that you have taken on its stewardship.

I hope you will look at that and that there will be an equalization at some point.

I sincerely urge you, in the next budget, we should see a growth in annual maintenance in order to prevent the development of further deferred maintenance in the future.

Senator Daines and I have been advocating for.

This is an important investment that was made last year to address the park's $190 million in deferred maintenance.