Now, the Biden administration has once again pulled the mining leases and put forth a 20-year mining ban.

Let's mine the minerals we need for our defense applications, modern technology, and everyday use with American labor in northern Minnesota.

I want to thank you for your service.

We need to figure this out, but not if it is going to make our roads unsafe.

We have to figure out how to pay for the roads.

The Small Business Administration's, including the 7(a) loan program had been a huge success in my opinion and an important tool to small businesses across our great nation.

As a former small business owner, I understand how important it is for small businesses to have access to affordable credit without loan programs that enable our small businesses.

One of them, I strongly believe, is immigration reform and looking at lifting some of the caps as well as being smart about spouses working.

I think that we are a policy committee and not an appropriations committee.

While I support allowing flexibility for our small businesses and lending institutions, we must ensure the necessary guardrails are place to protect this program.

I am introducing the Rural Housing Service Reform Act.

I worked to assist beginning farmers by reducing the cost of accessing crop insurance and incentivizing landowners with expiring CRP contracts to sell to beginning farmers.

If truck drivers are not safe, if they aren't well-paid, if they aren't well-rested, if they aren't well-trained--we're going to see the consequences.

I strongly believe in that role for Government.

This legislation is a common-sense solution to improve the supply chain.

I intend to focus the Committee's attention on how Congress can best support workers to ensure they have a safe workplace and the tools to succeed in their jobs.

I have actually been pushing people from the White House to our--my fellow Members of Congress in briefings, both closed door and open, that we want to make sure one of the major goals of any rules that we adopt, whether it is the…

Losing that, no matter how desirable leading in AI is, which we understand the importance of that, but losing that right over new ideas and innovation could be devastating to our economy and to our way of life.