The person I`m running against, Senator Rubio, certainly hasn`t opened his mouth. Or what he said was, basically, what`s -- what`s the matter with this? It`s a good idea.

And to even contemplate giving that or passing that burden on to Orange County residents just makes absolutely no sense.

I am alarmed, for example, about unanswered questions about Justice Thomas' failure to recuse from a decision...

It is Congress' responsibility to make laws governing the Federal Courts, which includes the Supreme Court.

Any meaningful ethics reform must include meaningful recusal reform.

So if an individual is found to have crossed the border illegally, do you believe that the United States should exercise its right to arrest and deport that individual, yes or?

Under the president's tax proposals, he is calling for rises in the top marginal tax rate back to, I believe, 39.6.

This is the behavior of weak men, not leaders.

I do appreciate you coming. We are still waiting for Secretary Yellen to materialize in the halls of Congress.

The Florida cattlemen are adamantly opposed to a cattle market mandate, and when I hear from folks back home, they typically express their concerns about government intervention and overreach that jeopardizes their own futures.

This Administration has dismissed the most basic principles of economics and instead has chosen to demonize our nation's packers, which in my opinion is a low, lazy, and simple narrative.

I heard many years ago that anger without action is nothing more than political theater.

I echo the views of my district's livestock producers, as well as the views of those on this Committee that believe in equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

We are wasting more time in Congress. This hearing, although the opioid epidemic from pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States was a serious problem in our country for a period of time, many states, like my state of Florida, like…

the real threat to the American people, which is fentanyl trafficking by the drug cartels into the United States, and they are using radical immigration policy by Joe Biden to kill more Americans here.

We have a new opioid crisis, folks, and it is not from big pharma in the United States; it is from the drug cartels who operate pharmaceutical sites below the southern border in Mexico.

Yes or no, will you commit to giving us an answer within 30 days?

Many of the mandates that have been proposed, the attacks on packers of all sizes, and an all-out war on the livestock industry, our producers from this Administration that has chosen to wage war in the name of unfounded, unproven…