They're saying they don't have time to do their job securing the border because they need the three things I just mentioned: barriers, technology, and people.

I am an eternally optimistic person, Mr. Chairman.

Would you agree with me when you talk to your Border Patrol agents, they tell you they need barriers, physical barriers, technology, and people?

How are they going to be able to do their job so that they can handle what's going on on the southern border?

When I talk to the Border Patrol agents, they tell me they need barriers, technology, and people to address the situation.

So, for planning a budgetary certainty, would you prefer, and I would ask Director Omishakin first and then Director Panos, would you prefer guaranteed an increased funding, or would you rather gamble with the application process for a DOT…

It is my hope that we can continue the trend by crafting a reauthorization bill that meets the priorities of North Dakotans and Marylanders alike.

If Carper, Capito, Cardin, and Cramer can't solve this problem, nobody in the alphabet can.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, again.

Improved and safer roads can mean a connection to a job or other essentials in a more reasonable, or at least a less unreasonable timeframe.

I would ask that for the other witnesses as well, and we could kind of go in the order that you gave testimony.

Good farm policy benefits every American every day.

Every single American benefits every single day from good farm policy.

You know, when you look at the cost of equipment now for our farmers, it is just unbelievable.

Good to be here with you.

Isn't there a value in resuming scheduled lease sales while Interior conducts its review so that we can fully realize the resulting job creation and revenue benefits?

It is truly an honor and a privilege work on behalf of our farmers.

I rise today to talk about how Congress can work together in a bipartisan way to pass infrastructure legislation, following my colleagues from Ohio, from Wyoming, from Iowa--and my colleague from North Carolina is here as well--with a real…