"I respectfully ask the Committee to mark up Senate Bill 3263 and pass the bill before the end of the year."
"It is hard to understand how just in the last two or three years the prices of this equipment has doubled and tripled and quadrupled in amount of money."
"We have to open our eyes to this because we have to eat. We cannot depend on people from other countries to supply what we need."
"I think at the core of what we need is a sound tax policy."
"We have hardworking people that believe in conservation. The EPA is unbelievably hard on our farmers, unfortunately."
"I get very depressed when I go home to Alabama. Obviously farmers put food on our tables, but unfortunately a lot of people across this country think that all the crops and the meat come from out back..."
"Well, God bless all farmers, because you do not get a lot of help. You get a lot of ridicule."
"I agree 100 percent that China is the existential threat to our economy and to our national security."
"We need to take an attitude, a position that this is so critical to our national security that we permit some of these mines immediately."
"I mean, they can have their political view and their position on issues, but they should be at work."
"Why isn't there a governmentwide standard for a minimum number of days that workers should be in the office?"
"I found it to be appalling that my State refused to take a student's license but would accept a gun permit license, and yet we are choosing winners and losers."
"there is nothing more important to me than making sure that every eligible American has a right to vote and equal access to the ballot box."
"it is quite disturbing to me to listen to some of the allegations that are going on but, more importantly, the concerted, intentional effort... to actually well-fund efforts to subvert the will of the..."
"To me too, it's about educating kids at a younger age."
"The United States is being invaded, and I think that is the right word, by 160 different countries, and this administration has done nothing."
"This fentanyl is going to kill a generation of Americans. It is not a Republican issue. It is not a Democratic issue. It is an American issue."
"The Mobile Harbor Ship Channel, widening and deepening project, which was fully funded at the start by the Federal Government, is both on time and on budget."