We can have productive processes to have mechanical thinning, to have prescribed burns, and to reduce wildfire risks.

Unfortunately, President Biden and Senate leadership are uninterested in getting back to regular order, or addressing our dire fiscal outlook.

Needless to say things must change.

The delayed process postpones--in other words when appropriators and authorizers can commence hearings to review agency spending.

Adopting a budget was once considered an essential part of good governance. Now it's barely an afterthought.

I want to start my questions off by addressing the issues from the last Congress, and where so many of us got really concerned with some of the loans that were made.

Needless to say things must change.

Unfortunately, President Biden and Senate leadership are uninterested in getting back to regular order, or addressing our dire fiscal outlook.

I would state that their suppression and obfuscation has led to the exact mistrust and distrust and conspiracy theories that they may have tried to avoid.

A critical component of this Committee's work is to establish policies that promote rather than discourage entrepreneurship in this country.

I am truly honored, I am humbled, and excited to serve as Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee.

I want to start my questions off by addressing the issues from the last Congress, and where so many of us got really concerned with some of the loans that were made.

Adopting a budget was once considered an essential part of good governance. Now it's barely an afterthought.

I look forward to passing meaningful legislation that will support small businesses and allow them to do what they do best.

We want to make sure we are recapturing those dollars.

The delayed process postpones--in other words when appropriators and authorizers can commence hearings to review agency spending.

Steep regulatory costs and the sheer volume of regulations that come from Federal agencies year after year too often prevent a would-be entrepreneur from ever taking the first step.

I appreciate your attention to it, and we look forward to working on that in the upcoming farm bill.