The gentleman from Texas is my buddy. In some ways he is much more elegant with language. He has the misfortune of being a lawyer. I show up at townhalls and things like that and they say it is defense spending. Then they don't believe you…

It is more complicated, and I have to do about a half-hour presentation to talk about it because it is more than just the disability payments that are part of Social Security and SSI.

That is coming out of part of the FICA tax, but it is the labor force participation. When you create incentives in society not to be part of society, then you lose all sorts of things. Let's do this slightly out of order. I was going to do…

So, shouldn't we be incentivizing the Good Neighbor policy with mining?

I am a big recycler myself. I have these big buckets of batteries. I don't want anything to go to the landfill.

I hope we can keep this hearing focused on the substance. I hope we can keep it focused on what our tribal leaders have told us.

Regardless of whether they are a cartel or a local mom-and-pop organization trying to contaminate their own damn communities, deadly drugs on Indian reservations are horrible.

A few months ago, before this very Subcommittee, tribal leaders bravely spoke about death threats, yes, death threats, they received from the international criminal cartels.

I think this is a Catch-22, but I also think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

We have nothing. In my opinion, we have nothing to go out there and campaign on. It's embarrassing.

Would you agree with that, Dr. Williams?

And the only way we are going to get there is if we properly fund the Indian Health Service and BIA and other contract services that tribes use to help support their communities.

When are we going to do something about this?

How can we sit back and watch this dereliction of duty?

I stand here today, yet again, as the border crisis continues to devastate my State. On February 7, I stood here, angry that rank partisanship tanked the single most important piece of border security and immigration legislation produced…

Yet, I promise you, tomorrow, we will have things on our phone attacking us for telling the truth. Mr. Speaker, I am going to argue our willingness to come here and tell the truth--I love people. I want them to flourish. Doctor, we are…

Yes. On the economic side, we call it knock-off effects, second-degree, third-degree effects. In some ways, they are not even that. They are just the principal effects.

Doctor, look, my personal philosophy, I am probably a little bit more libertarian here. Have what you want, but understand, A, should government finance things that make our population less healthy, and, as a matter of fact, make much of…