We are just regular guys and gals. Welcome. Thanks for that testimony, especially for your close.

I think we have been locked in a bit of a cycle and not thinking as creatively as we can in the rulemaking process.

As a matter of science, we have heard that wetlands and more than a million miles of streams are inextricably linked to downstream water quality.

Through Sackett, the Supreme Court has weakened one of our bedrock environmental laws, and harms will be felt nationwide.

I understand and many Americans understand, you can't look at what has happened here to your mothers, your fathers, your grandparents, sons, daughters, children, even babies, and not scream out for justice. Justice must be done.

I ask that I be permitted to complete my comments before we proceed to the next vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

We should think long and hard before eliminating protections for more than half of our wetlands.

the President will stay in close contact with these leaders that he is no longer going to see in person.

this is going to be an increasingly urgent matter for the president.

I'm saddened and outraged by the attack, and that I've directed my National Security team, to keep looking at new information, as it comes in.

The president making a decision late this afternoon, huddling with his national security team, his secretary of state, as they tried to assess information about that hospital blast.

he is going to be even more emphatic about that than before.

We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense.

The United States, make no mistake about it, stands with Israel.

I have not given up hope of bringing these folks home.

I'm confident that Israel is going to act under the major, the rules of war. There's a standards that democratic institutions and countries will go by. And so I'm -- I'm confident that there's going to be an ability for the innocents in…

Families of American Israeli hostages are urging the Biden Administration to act now.

I think it'd be a big mistake. What happened in Gaza, in my view is Hamas and the extreme elements of Hamas don't represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that it would be a mistake to for Israel to occupy Gaza again.