I appreciate so much what the IGs do and what you do, Mr. Dodaro.

And I want it sooner rather than later.

I thank our ranking member. This is truly a bipartisan bill that we brought out of committee through the hard work and the leadership of both our chairman and ranking member. So I appreciate all of her diligent, good efforts on the bill…

when you do not do those audits, you do not see the patterns in behavior that either could be deterred or they could be, in fact, prosecuted and deterred.

I would be more sympathetic if she had not conveniently released a press release yesterday.

I rise today in support of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also referred to as the Senate's farm bill. As a member of the Senate Ag Committee, I was proud to work with Senator Roberts and our ranking member, Senator Stabenow of…

this is incredibly frustrating to me because it should be the most robust audit program in the Congress and in the Administration, and it seems to me it is not.

the bottom line is if she was not prepared to testify in front of us, she should not have been prepared to send out a press release.

I think it is difficult for someone like me to explain to a worker at Bobcat who puts on a shirt every day and gets dirty that he pays more than people living on trust funds.

I might argue that one of the reasons why you see a decline is the increasing interest rates and burden put on young entrepreneurs by the challenges that they have, which includes student debt.

What I always tell people is--I do something that a lot of people here do not do, which is represent rural America.

I do not think it is petty. I think that we are asking banks and financial institutions to perform a function that does not add any value to them but adds value to the country and the security of the financial system as a whole but also…

Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman, and members of the Committee, my name is A-dae Romero-Briones.

there is a reason we have passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year for the past 57 years, and that is because it is vital for the men and women who take responsibility for defending our country. Passing the Defense…

The Department of the Interior is supposed to facilitate tribal resource development.

These Federal programs are vitally important to Native American communities.

In my home State of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation... has been an industry leader in oil production.

We have to build more, not only natural gas pipelines, but other pipelines as well.