How are you going to be independent if China produces the very components that make up EV?

How are you going to figure this out?

I want to thank you for your service. As a former Secretary, I understand how difficult your task is.

We seek energy independence. We seek energy dominance, so we are not held hostage by foreign entities.

The Marine Corps remains postured and prepared to serve as the Nation's crisis response force.

We should be very impressed by the ability of Ukraine to adapt over the past year.

I would like your commitment to also work together with us to find a path through some of these difficult places.

I am a dirt farmer. And I am going to tell you, when they laid out what had happened at this bank over the last 2 years, you did not have to be an accountant to figure out what the hell was going on here.

I think I can safely say it is destroying our communities throughout the country.

Despite repeated investments in the defense industrial base and the shipbuilding industrial base in particular, we don't really see improvements towards ships being delivered on cost and on time.

We need no less than 31 Amphibious Warfare Ships to enable Marine Corps Title 10 missions.

In 2008, I voted against the bailouts of the big banks because I do not support taxpayer bailouts.

So at what point in time do the Fed regulators drop the hammer on this outfit?

It is not an easy job, and I commend you for taking it on board.

I think is probably good policy, and I would think that issue is bipartisan.

We need to protect American consumers and small business folks. We need to hold bank executives accountable when they screw up.

Each of these groups, back to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed to prioritize properly clear and present risks of the inflationary environment, rising interest rates, what it did to bond values, instead opting to focus on…

I have talked to a lot of bankers who said if this would have happened before Dodd-Frank the regulations would have stopped this from happening.