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The answer is not to spend billions of Federal taxpayer dollars to electrify every American home and business.
That's unacceptable, and it's why I've introduced the UNSHACKLE Act.
We need to unshackle American industry so that new and diverse energy sources can help create a more resilient energy future.
I think it's extremely irresponsible. I think there's a lot of radical climate alarmist and ideologues driving this, and I think it's going to ruin the greatest economy in the world.
Geothermal sources are effectively renewable, they're not emitting things. They're not emitting carbon into the atmosphere. They're not polluting the atmosphere. The same cannot be said of oil and gas drilling. Is that correct?
The most near term resources for geothermal are all in the west and overlap significantly with Federal lands.
We will sink that bill unless we have an agreement on this larger spending plan because you promised us, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, that this dual track was going to go together.
I want to make sure that certain actions are not undertaken that could end up inhibiting bidding.
Clearly if you can get paid $300 per child, even though the child is here illegally and you are here illegally, that is going to encourage people to come here.
Well, the $3.5 trillion number is a shocking figure.
Given that response, I know that previously the position of the Administration and the State Department was that the 2001 AUMF no longer played a role of significance.
I would like to associate myself with the comments that Senator Rubio made about planning for a potential immediate collapse of the Afghan Government and security forces.
You said, yesterday, that you inherited a date, but in fact, you did not inherit the date.
I appreciate your willingness to change your point of view in part because of the conditions that have developed in the most recent weeks.
I thought President Trump was wrong to enter into an agreement to withdraw. I thought President Biden was wrong to enter into an agreement--or to continue with that agreement to withdraw.
I guess I would like to focus more on the moral stain of leaving people behind and understand what we can do to make sure that we are not leaving people behind.
I, for one, thought some years ago that we should withdraw from Afghanistan. The conditions that I saw in the ensuing years convinced me that I was wrong.