Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Across the country, the opioid epidemic is devastating families and communities. In Rhode Island, the COVID-19 pandemic is only worsening this crisis. In 2020 alone, accidental overdose…

I would ask you to please review that letter, and it would be helpful if you could send me an updated reply as to where you all are with respect to the various proposals to you that the States have made.

I, too, like Senator Cramer, want to raise the issue of the Navigable Waters Protection Rule while we are here.

I just want to implore EPA to see the States as partners and work with them and to accept their leadership.

I am delighted to be recommending this legislation developed with your member and my friend, Senator Cassidy.

We need to provide that fairness and that revenue to the adjoining states.

We believe that ultimately in order for humanitarian assistance to flow the Taliban has to allow that to happen within the country.

We are facing a very challenging, very daunting, and very complex situation in Afghanistan.

How do we manage this difficult balance between providing, or at least not interfering with the humanitarian assistance, and still maintaining sanctions effective sanctions against the Taliban?

Jeff Clark and Trump had done, the committee that referred Jeff Clark to the bar association for potential disciplinary action.

He`s the central person in this saga, and at some point, his testimony is going to be obtained.

We saw firsthand in Afghanistan how corruption really can erode public confidence in government and ultimately jeopardize longtime stability.

This hearing is a reminder, really, of the continuing obligation that we have to help support emerging democracies around the world.

I think supporting civil society is really important, because civil society plays right now the role of checks and balances on the work and decisions of the President.

I think there’s three really key takeaways from. This first it’s a very simple one, and that’s how deeply, personally involved, President Trump, was in all of this -- meetings, in phone calls, and contacts, Oval Office, he was neck deep in…

This is an attempted coup d`etat within the Department of Justice against the attorney general.

Madam President, as we go over the wonderful things that Build Back Better offers--including tax benefits for families with children, support for home care and childcare for family members, lower prescription drug costs--I want to focus on…

I think their play was make Mitch take us as close to a debt limit crisis as we can to see if the democrats fold. And when we didn’t, they realize that a global economic meltdown led by a U.S. debt limit crisis was going to blow them up…