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This is my question. EPA is using the Clean Air Act to justify these rules, all right, for regulating emissions.

I am urging you to sooner than later because summer is right around the corner.

I just want a little more clarity. Obviously, Iowa, 42 ethanol plants, E15 is such a big deal.

I think you are the first Administrator from the EPA that has been here since 2016, so I applaud you for doing this.

I think I ought to point out that it's been very public, it's a matter of public record that President Biden himself aggressively took advantage of it to save himself as much as $500,000.

Many taxpayers accept complexity that favors them.

So we can't let this happen, right? I mean, this is a vulnerability for the safety and security of our country, is it not?

I am extremely concerned about the number of known terrorists and criminals who have come across our southern border as a result of the weakness.

I would rather see those resources go toward stopping forced labor materials from coming into our country, interdicting those drugs.

I think it is a misdirection of priorities to send that much future taxpayer funding, again, to what we consider a manmade crisis at the southern border.

One of my top concerns with the crisis we are seeing at our southern border is that we know that individuals on the terror watch list, sex offenders, some of these transnational gang members, drug traffickers, human traffickers, the list…

Thank you, Chairman Mann, for holding this hearing. You look good in that chairmanship.

In fact, in the last Congress, we passed a bill, the Brandon Act, because a veteran in my district went to the VA Center, was denied care, and 5 hours later committed suicide.

Had the VA sent us testimony in a more timely manner, let me emphasize that, had the VA sent us testimony in a more timely manner, I would have liked to have addressed the initiatives they are talking about today.

Are you really taking serious measures of what this is going to look like when you have to depopulate large animals?

The most important metric of success is whether the suicide rate has gone down, and unfortunately, it has gone up.

Never should a veteran walk out of that VA in crisis. I think clearly something has to be done here around these access points.

Thank you, Representative Van Orden. I thought about removing your time because I take offense as a former enlisted who became an officer.