Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…
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It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.
We admire that, and I can say on both sides of the aisle, people recognize the job he did as Budget Committee Chairman.
I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.
Let's face it, as long as there is chaos and uncertainty, there is going to be litigation and stays, and maybe that is a strategy in and of itself.
The Biden administration wasted valuable time and resources prioritizing the promulgation of a rule that was unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court for its overreach.
It is hard for me as a former regulator to imagine multi-State, multi-jurisdictional, linear infrastructure that doesn't have a Federal nexus somewhere along the line.
For those of us that want to go back and forward seven generations, my sixth-great grandfather gave his life at Bunker Hill for the cause of liberty.
The Court correctly limited the scope of Federal authority over wetlands consistent with the text of the Clean Water Act.
We really do need your help on figuring out how we get this needed investment for the benefit of the tribe and the region.
If we can come up with some good solutions here it will help in a lot of other cases as well.
That raised serious national security concerns, defense concerns, because that base is a leading base when it comes to ISR, satellite, and actually now working with hypersonic development.
If we can come up with some good solutions here it will help in a lot of other cases as well.
We really do need your help on figuring out how we get this needed investment for the benefit of the tribe and the region.
But that hospital needs investment. The parent company is not doing that.
The existing hospital in Devil's Lake is a critical access hospital that serves the entire lake region, the community, the tribe, and the whole region.
We need to address the disparities in water access faced by Native tribes.
We have taken a number of steps, and one of those is legislation. I am a cosponsor of the PASS Act with Senator Tester, Senator Rounds.