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We are not happy about the geopolitical situation, we are happy we got more miners to work.

It is unacceptable that these programs and students were caused uncertainty that they would be funded.

When parents send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. However, this is not always the case.

Senators Manchin and Toomey introduced a bill to ensure that what happened in West Virginia could never happen again.

Are more people remote working than there were before COVID?

My state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids, very, very sad situation, and it is coming from the southern border.

I mean, I would anticipate isn't the law that if you are denied a claim that you would be removed from the country?

You've put a lot of stock in this in your six-point plan that this is going to have a great effect of expediting the asylum claims and the removal.

The more people that come in puts more money in the hands of the cartels which allows them to up their ability to have a more robust drug trade.

The name in and of itself has, I think, implications to all of us. I heard all about this all over the weekend of concern of sort of an Orwellian, you know, policing of speech.

Today we should also talk about the work the department is doing to protect the homeland from two other threats.

The Administration failures at the border threaten the work of the rest of the department.

Right now the greatest present threat we face as a nation is domestic terrorism and no one should forget how close we came in this place to a mass atrocity over a year ago.

Deterrence is something that I don't think you've placed enough emphasis on.

An aggressive use of transfer and reprogramming authority can harm the department's wide-ranging and so very important priorities.

I think that we can deliver again this year and I'm grateful to begin that work with this important hearing.

Frankly, I don't know why we would spend billions of dollars protecting the homeland without the capacity to protect our citizens from foreign actors and terrorist organizations.

For many years, I have been committed to ensuring the Green Bank Observatory stays open for the next generation of young scientists in West Virginia and around the world.