has by far the largest voice and a big impact on my party.

a disproportionate share of all national monuments that have been designated on land in the United States over the last 25 years, about 28 percent, as I recall, have been designated in Utah.

Now the impeachment trial is behind us. It falls to each of us to affirm what we all know. President Biden won the election through the legitimate vote of the American people. The division in America will only begin to heal in the light of…

The reality is that Black-American history is not one of a hapless, hopeless race oppressed by a more powerful White race.

It is impractical and a nonstarter for the United States Government to pay reparations.

Instead of that theory, I would like to share the reality of a race whose history of success in America has been stolen and what we can do to repair that damage.

Reparations is not the way to right our country's wrong. What I propose later will be more lasting.

First, let me reiterate that slavery was and still is evil, whether it be the 83-year history of our Nation or the prior 2,000-year history or the presence around the world today.

I actually think it makes it worse.

If someone is contributing in ways that are election-oriented, we should know how that money is spent and where that money is spent.

How long can you keep doing that? I mean, that is a big deal when you say we haven't held a jury trial in our Federal courts for probably a year now.

I would just like to emphasize that security of our Judiciary is equally important, and it is just not getting the same degree of attention.

I think that is probably true of any of us who would take on such a big challenge.

I feel a little bad that some of the criticism that you have received here today I just think is unfounded and, as I said, exaggerated.

The challenge of the Postal Service is a generational challenge.

There is a definite need, and as people have said, infrastructure has been redefined from what it was in the '70s or the '80s.

I think I represent probably some of the most rural parts of the nation, with the exception maybe of Mr. Amodei, who will be speaking here shortly.

Debt and spending is the primary reason I ran for Congress 8 years ago, and this is a time when the challenges we had then seem rather small compared to the times we have now.