I appreciate your candid and accurate response to that, Secretary Moniz.

shouldn't we be looking at ways to expedite our permiting process for infrastructure, maybe for building nuclear power plants that have no CO2 emissions?

it takes upwards of 7 to 8 years just to get the paperwork finished.

To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives to incarcerate by phasing out the Federal Government's reliance on privately operated criminal detention facilities.

As career officials, your presence today is a very helpful reminder that it is possible to set aside politics of climate change and focus on the questions of how to best help our constituents make informed decisions for themselves, for…

Well, during the Trump administration, you assessed that there was a lack of coordination between Federal agencies with respect to immigration policies and procedure.

If we are not mining in the U.S. for these materials, where are we going to get them?

our loss of vital good-paying jobs is not only a problem with an executive order like this

I might suggest that, if this were to become law, we implement it only in Democrat congressional districts and see how that works out.

The Trump administration, as you know, took real specific steps to try to end the pull factors that incentivize illegal immigration into the United States.

Are you aware that 25--according to the EPA, 25--up to 25 percent on any given day of the air pollution, the particulate matter over the skies of Los Angeles, are from China?

I would think, though, given the potential efficacy for this drug or preventing the transmission, that it ought to be part of some type of Operation Warp Speed program to get this done as quickly as possible, and particularly for getting…

I was offended and extremely disappointed that you could not give a straight yes-or-no answer on whether or not the claims that President Trump was responsible for 500,000 COVID deaths...

I rise today to discuss a piece of legislation we may soon consider in this body called H.R. 1. H.R. 1 does not solve the problems currently facing our election system; it makes the problems worse. Democrats have labeled the bill the ``For…

It's a resource that we definitely need to be tapping into because it would help fill a need that we have got.

We are a little bit ahead but not very much.

Well, I share Mr. Larsen and Mr. Lynch's observation. This Commission did some great work.

Additionally, any programs like this either through the Government or the private sector must be voluntary, market-driven, and incentive-based.