I'll flag one other concern for the bill. It would pre-judge the results of the FTC's current study on the economic effects of PBMs.

Mr. President, the media likes narratives that split issues neatly into two opposing positions and often Republican against Democrat. There is one narrative that has been repeated so often it has become conventional wisdom. It holds that…

On my watch, I assure my colleague this is not going to be a mandatory program.

would you direct IRS to update the spending plan annually for Congress to review

Addressing poor taxpayer service needs to be a high priority for you.

I agree with the President and the timeline in continued need for fossil fuel.

I urge under your leadership to hold a hearing with CBO on the latest outlook.

One area of agreement must be that our budget and appropriation process is broken.

We should also agree that our nation's fiscal outlook is dire.

For decades, Congress turned a blind eye as our nation walked toward a fiscal cliff, but Democrats turned that walk into a sprint.

the Administration has done nothing to improve the budgetary outlook.

we've already been helping the global warming issue with more efficient farming and all that.

the American Rescue Plan was an enormous policy error.

Our rising deficits are cast by a lot of people as long-term challenge, but not immediate problem today.

Things need to change.

I find that perhaps minds are closed to what is obvious to the rest of us.

Is it humane that people that are here waiting in line for decades are not able to come because we are processing through 4.5 million illegal immigrants in 2 years?

I would say that this would classify as an epidemic, our fentanyl opioid crisis.