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I'm grateful that we're having this hearing because the rate of human spaceflight and commercial activity has risen steeply since 2015.

I'm glad I'm not misleading Oregonians, and when I ask people--I'll often ask Questions in my town hall on things like would you all like prefer to see it invested in the stock fund, and the risk of what having Social Security wiped out by…

Affluent people should be able to put significant money into IRAs and so forth, but it reaches a point at which there is not a public purpose in subsidizing increased, massive increase in wealth for the very wealthiest people in America.

Why does it make sense that we are providing such a massive protection for those levels? Those aren't basic retirement levels. That's just a way to escape income taxes for very wealthy Americans.

I hold a lot of townhalls, one in every county every year, all 36 counties, open townhall.

There is no other way to honor our promise to older Americans to retire with dignity.

The people who care are firefighters and nurses and teachers because they pay taxes with every single paycheck.

I welcome the bipartisan commitment not to cut Social Security, but it's not rock solid.

Consistently our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are writing tax legislation that gives billionaires a free pass.

What Republicans don't tell the billionaires... is that billionaires often don't report income close to $400,000.00 because they live off their borrowings.

I am particularly challenged by seeing how agencies are acting in a way that would moot the oversight of Congress.

I wanted you to say it out loud so everybody here knew that their future is being mediated by a group of parties to a lawsuit, and that they have no part in it.

It seems odd that the future of this Northwest would be determined by a group of people that get together, unelected.

I also asked Chair Mallory if the CEQ was taking an active role in guiding the future of the dams.

I had the opportunity to ask the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, Brenda Mallory, if it was the position of the Biden administration that these four dams should be removed or breached without congressional authorization.

She assured me that Congress would have to authorize such action.

With that, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:49 p.m., recessed subject to the call of the Chair and reassembled at 5:17 p.m. when…

The farming, the fishing, and the forestry are being severely impacted in my state right now just within my lifetime