it feels like sometimes the Federal Government's cure to a problem is more dangerous than the disease to begin with.

While I agree with the distribution process, can you please explain why your agency distributes funds based on a level of economic distress versus per capita?

The global pandemic has caused losses due to health but also due to suffering economies.

They got to the top by cheating and stealing, and now, they are at the top or beyond.

Why were private prisons--what is the history behind the private prisons?

I may be like some of the other members on this call, a lot of this is new to me.

So, addressing those release for home confinement, do these folks ever go back to prison?

we have to get back to work. We have to get our economy going again.

this extension of supplemental unemployment is devastating restaurants and small businesses in my district.

You know, between the CARES Act as well as the American Rescue Plan, billions of Federal dollars have been allocated to your agency and other agencies.

Last year, I was proud to speak on the House floor in support of Senate Bill 2981.

I appreciate you mentioning that in your testimony, that we have to recognize, we can no longer ignore China.

It is my opinion that cutting off visitors created a huge problem.

I am a huge supporter of not only the Jones Act, but of American-made shipbuilding.

when we started peeling back the regulations and we lowered the corporate tax rate, got competitive for the first time in decades, we had a record economy.

The EDA's most recent award to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau... will be a great help.

NOAA is a global leader in climate research, observing all the world's oceans and major seas.

I have seen, with some Federal agencies over the years that they have a cavalier attitude towards protecting America's national secrets.