I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.

And to perhaps state the obvious, as the President of Aon Corporation, you have a fiduciary duty to your shareholders and to your employees, and to your customers, to try to get this right.

We would like to try to make sure that medication-assisted treatment for people who have opioid disorders can be accomplished through telehealth.

I think not just an issue of cost-benefit analysis, it is also a moral imperative.

This approach of budget cutting is not just about saving money it is about devaluing the institutions that are necessary to compete, and succeed in this world.

What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.

I say science is the headlights that drives us forward, and let's us see what's coming.

Thank you Senator Braun. I will do a second round, and I guess I'd like to first start by asking the witnesses who are here present in the room, whether any of you endorse the proposition that there is nothing going on here that is out of…

Ocean pollution is of great concern to my constituents in Rhode Island. It impacts our economy.

Unless we have a regional approach to issues of pollution, et cetera, we can't, literally, effectively control the quality of water.

The proposed Republican budget would slash $626 million from that program, would set it back tremendously.

I do not want to have to say, 'No, no, no, that step up and match us is only true when we are telling you you have to match us.'

I think also from your experience as a state regulator, you know that one of the most frustrating things is to go to a regulatory agency, and because they are understaffed, underfunded, they are not able to respond to a request for permit…

It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.

It is not litter.

I have taken a very strong line that I believe is consistent with what the administration wants, which is basically tough bounce.

There is no chance in the world that the aluminum and steel arrangement will create anything like the emissions reductions of a proper carbon border tariff.

By trying to abolish the ATF, the Agency responsible for implementing regulations to curb this violence and carnage.