I am very concerned at the unintended consequence this action and its subsequent extension will have on homeowners in my state.

They`ve been able to do that from the beginning of this. I think eventually that`s where they`re going to end up.

I just want to make sure you know this is a partnership and we need it, and if we don't do it and do it right, God help us all.

If you want to know the geopolitical problems that we have, it is rural versus urban and it gets bigger, and the chasm gets bigger and bigger.

But despite that support, the previous administration sought to dismantle the program, to dismantle it.

One thing I would ask you all to consider is ownership.

I will not vote for that huge bill to regulate elections and campaign finance and combat voter suppression.

We need the truth to come out if we`re going -- if our democracy is going to survive, because it was an insurrection, it was an act of insurrection.

I think our State in many sections of our State, and Senator Manchin I think would agree here, have come forth with some tremendous ideas to be solutions to the problem that are community based.

I want this drinking water level, as I have tried to put in legislation out much sooner than what we expect it to be, and I am going to keep pushing on that, because I think that is critical.

I think that is good advice, to be on the front end to have the data ready so that we can meet the challenge.

I can't decide if I'm frustrated or grateful...you have overseen the transfer and reprogramming of almost $3 billion.

Now, rather than using a diplomatic approach to solve this crisis, Vice President Harris has invoked politics, blaming the influx on everything from the Trump administration to climate change.

I have never heard President Biden say that, and I can't imagine that anybody would urge folks, desperate folks, to send their children at great, great personal risk to the United States unaccompanied.

Widespread shortages of personal protective equipment...had a disastrous impact on all of us.

Even if you are down 1,000 people at the Agency, you can afford to have that occur?

It's the preventative model. It's approaching folks early.

If we know that these opioids are causing the problem, we need treatment centers, and we have not enough.