When someone calls a Black person an Uncle Tom, is that a racist attack?

I think it is. I think it's a disgusting attack.

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.

This is the behavior of weak men, not leaders.

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

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.

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.

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…

So do you believe that if an individual or a group of individuals breaks the laws of the United States that they should be arrested, yes or no?

Do you believe in following the laws of the United States, yes or no?

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

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

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

It's time that we reinvigorate our nuclear recycling R&D in the United States.

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…

Isn't it a fact that by doing that, you have actually--the Biden administration and your administration of the Biden administration's policies have actually contributed to this five-fold increase in the number of people that we have…

And then they were forcing you to buy light bulbs it cost a fortune. So I signed something a couple of days ago that gives you the right to continue to use the incandescent light.

Mike Pence, I hope you`re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country. And if you`re not, I`m going to be very disappointed in you, I will tell you right now.