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I think that we need to talk about it as a whole, not as individual segments like carbon, for example.

Where in the rules do you have the authority to tell a Member what they can and cannot ask?

Mr. Chairman, I have a simple question.

That is not true, Mr. Chairman.

We are the leaders in Congress that must deal with climate change, and the way that we are functioning on that is through what is referred to as carbon credits, carbon markets.

This is about climate change, the most pressing issue that is facing us today, and nobody is more impacted than us, agriculture.

Let us make them very proud that this House Agriculture Committee is securing our role being at the top of the point of the spear when it comes to dealing with our Federal policy, Congressional policy.

If we don’t get back to the most basic of things which is integrity, then we’re not going to fix anything.

I would urge my Democrat colleagues to join me in cosponsoring my bill, H.R. 2076, the COVID-19 Border Protection Act.

I would like to remind the Secretary that according to your website, 11,125 CBP employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and 43 CBP agents have died from the virus so far.

It is clear that your Department either does not have a strategy or it is not effectively executing a strategy

Your agency, had released migrants who have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Senate has an obligation to conduct vigorous oversight and to be assertive in using our authorities

I want to thank you and your team for responding to the letter, the bipartisan letter that I sent with Senator Scott requesting reforms to FEMA disaster relief practices that were discriminatory against black Americans.

The discussions that we have here and the policy that we pursue will determine the level of progress that we make toward building an economy that is inclusive and fair for all.

In Congress, we have to be sure that financial innovation proceeds in a way that doesn't just deliver benefits to a few but to all, especially those most marginalized.

Anyone who follows my work in Congress knows that closing the racial wealth gap, which in my home of Atlanta, unfortunately is the worst in the nation, is the goal that I infuse into all of my policy work, especially my work here on the…

At the end of the day, I have to always put, you know, my duty to the constitution and to our country above all.