The rise in price is the direct result of this Administration's assault on the oil and gas industry.

As noted, we actually have bipartisan agreement on the importance of this issue and those are rare agreements these days.

I think it is a great bill.

The law has shortcomings, let's put it that way.

I am deeply concerned about the use of emergency powers during this pandemic.

I believe in limits to Executive Power and I think it is critically important that we do that.

It is just patently absurd that we would be operating under a 'emergency' for almost as long as I have been alive.

I am a strong supporter of needing infrastructure, as is well-noted in debates in this Committee and believing that we need a fence and a wall and we need to have infrastructure on the border, the southern border to manage that crisis.

Obviously we are going to original intent, talking about the Framers' intent.

I think it is corrosive to the institutions and I suspect--well, I know you all agree.

The NEA was intended to end perpetual States of Emergency, it has actually resulted in Presidents freely renewing emergencies.

Hurricane Laura hit so hard and so fast, extreme winds devastated a dense area of population in my district.

I don't support spending more money. I think we are $31 trillion in debt, enough is enough.

This is an important discussion for us to engage in and certainly it is bipartisan, so.

May I say, as an American citizen born and raised in south Louisiana, working on my 61st year on God's beautiful earth here, I have lived through many brutal hurricanes and I have come to clearly understand that in the modern era the…

I have heard from a lot of constituents over the past several weeks about aviation, and I have heard a lot of concerns about congestion at the airports, the inability to get through security.

I have heard a lot about the labor shortage that is resulting in canceled routes or canceled flights, and the adverse impact that that is having on families.

I have heard a lot about higher energy prices and how those are influencing higher ticket costs, which puts aviation travel out of reach for many of the constituents that we represent.