How in the world is that going to take place?

You do not have a job here anymore.

If we keep plowing ahead now with $1.5 trillion deficits baseline, it will not be a good ending.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite Senator Tuberville to stop by, at his convenience, and maybe he could be of some help with respect to encouraging Warrior Met to join with the United Mine Workers and fashion an agreement to…

You do not have any leverage.

Not a single coal miner ever caused a bankruptcy.

I think there is validity in looking at some of those issues.

Look at what the Biden administration did when it got the reins. We had 1 percent inflation.

I rise in opposition to Dr. Califf, and I have spoken before on this. I just want to say this for a minute or two here. I respect everyone's position on this and their decision, but I have never had anything that has affected my State and…

I rise today to once again express my extreme disbelief and disappointment that the U.S. Senate will vote to confirm Dr. Robert M. Califf to yet again lead the Food and Drug Administration. My opposition is nothing new. In fact, it was…

the bottom line is right now we`re not in a financial position to do it.

I`ve been ringing the alarm bell forever. I mean, for the last year about inflation, nobody`s been listening. Now we`re seeing a basic threat. It`s a 7.5 percent tax on everybody, on every product you buy. It`s just unbelievable.

This inflation is real, it`s harming people. It`s 7.5 percent. That`s a tax and it continues to increase. It`s not decreasing. So the feds have to step up to the plate and do something. The administration has to do. We all have to work…

We need to transform those areas, whether it be Wyoming, which is a big coal producer.

We should be doing a lot more.

I think I am fine and willing to go down a two-path system.

If not, we are going to be left behind and be totally, totally, subservient to China.

The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:04 a.m. in Room SD-366, Dirksen Senate Office Building.