Everyone wants a safe, decent place to call home. Without this, nothing in your life works--not your job, your health, your education, your family, not anything.

The stories that I have heard are heartbreaking and enraging, families targeted, and exploited because of their religion and their inability to get access to a traditional mortgage.

Too often, these contracts are designed to fail.

Typically they are targeting Black, Brown, and immigrant communities, poor communities, groups that have long suffered from housing discrimination.

U.S. coal production has been targeted by administrative policies starting in the Obama administration.

But we are also going to have to look at, I would say, banning some of this content, because even a label or a watermark--it is not going to help the artist or the candidate if everyone thinks it is them and it is not.

Typically they are targeting Black, Brown, and immigrant communities, poor communities, groups that have long suffered from housing discrimination.

Do you agree that without tools for people to determine whether an image or video generated by AI, that that would pose a risk to our free and fair elections?

I guess I would turn to you, Mr. Brooks. You talked about advocating for creating ways to help people identify AI-created content.

Too often, these contracts are designed to fail.

This is the American dream, and it is also the way that most people build wealth and grow a safe, secure life.

I very much appreciated your testimony, as you reviewed some of the history of the illegal land transfers which is, of course, as you pointed out, part of the long legacy of taking land from the Ojibwe people in this place that is now…

I first want to thank Senator Smith and this Committee for your efforts to enact the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Act.

We have a responsibility to support the economic development of Native communities.

These changes, though technical, are crucial for implementing the existing law and to fulfill our goal and our trust and treaty responsibilities of restoring illegally taken lands to Leech Lake.

Thank you so much, Chair Schatz and Vice Chair Murkowski, for holding this hearing today and including my bill, the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Technical Corrections Act of 2023.

I think one of the things that we learned from the pandemic is the threats that we have when we do not have onshored manufacturing of so many things, including antibiotics.

Today, we are here to discuss the Biden administration's record on the Federal Coal Leasing Program.