I thank the chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee for yielding and for bringing this bill. Especially I thank Mr. Self for his leadership in working for so long on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, it is not often that we will walk…

I think -- when he says America first that comes from a deep, sincere place in his heart and he loves this country.

I think he's going to be inspiring and uplifting, and he wants to talk about unifying the country. That's what the country needs right now.

We’ve got to turn the rhetoric down. We’ve got to turn the temperature down in this country. And we need leaders of all parties on both sides to call that out.

We need to work on bringing that down so that we can have thoughtful debate and we can have policy debates and discussions.

It is an objective truth that Donald Trump is probably the most persecuted and attacked political figure in history.

We need a unified message. We need to turn the temperature down and I think it is a time for moral clarity.

This is a dangerous time and we've been suggesting that all elected officials from the president on down really try to draw the country together.

I've called last night for hearings. We are going to do this as quickly as possible, get the answers that the American people deserve.

Donald Trump is strong. Joe Biden is weak. Donald Trump is vigorous. Joe Biden is not.

This is a moment where it is refreshing to hear Speaker Johnson right here, you know, Republican, Democratic partisans, the president of the United States, saying, everybody take a step back, everybody take a breath.

Well, I think that step is it's inevitable that President Biden will choose not to run for reelection and we're going to have a really tight, messy procedure to pick our nominee and we have to focus on that, and it is a very difficult time…

I think the polls are good. Polling drives of what happens in politics, but people for a long time, they don't like his choice. Seventy-three percent of the country doesn't like this choice and Republican Party is hopeless band of mostly…

This afternoon we will be voting on legislation that demands the attention of every single American. This will be one of the most important votes that Members of this Chamber will ever take in their entire careers. It is an issue that we…

To my colleagues across the aisle, this is about the quality of the evidence. Surely everyone recognizes that the Oversight Committee is the body of authority of Congress that has responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. In…

Too late. It has already happened.

But to have it--have an agenda-driven Green New Deal, anti-American, anti-American-energy, anti-American-petrochemical agenda shoved down our throat by an Administration that claims it is doing so on behalf of protecting the world's…

The American energy industry and the American petrochemical industry is, with no debate, the cleanest producer of affordable energy product and affordable petrochemical product in the world.