Wide deployment of carbon capture, sequestration, and utilization could significantly reduce climate pollution emissions in this country and abroad.

I proudly join and support all of my co-sponsors, and I encourage a quick resolution out of this Committee and hard work on the floor of the Senate to get this thing passed in the U.S. Senate.

I think this effort is exactly that, and I think all of us who have worked on this, especially the four of us who have been particularly engaged, will have something to talk about.

I am certain that these efforts will lead to breakthroughs that provide for economic and employment benefits to our country and provide long term technological solutions that will allow for the continuation of an all of the above energy…

for generation after generation we have seen CO2 as a pollutant, and the efforts that this Committee... tried to turn the page and start looking at CO2 as an opportunity and as a legitimate and valuable by-product.

I do have one concern that I want to mention with the legislation which explains why I am not yet a co-sponsor.

American ingenuity has always been our best tool in meeting the challenges our country has faced.

The barriers to carbon capture, utilization, and storage are largely financial--largely financial, not environmental.

I have long believed that the Federal Government should foster and support the deployment of carbon capture, sequestration, and utilization technologies.

I don't understand this budget. So in 2016 BIA submitted a report to Congress estimating that to provide a minimum, a minimum, base level of public safety and judicial services to all federally-recognized tribes, it would cost…

I appreciate that. And you have put some of them out. For example, drought funding is an area where you have put it out there. I want to acknowledge that and thank you for that.

I want to thank my colleagues, Senator Murkowski, but I also want to greatly thank my colleagues, Senator Smith and Senator Cortez Masto.

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our farmers and ranchers provide the highest quality, lowest cost food supply in the world that every American benefits from every single day, and we need good farm policy to support their efforts that are so important to us.

We have a responsibility to uphold our commitments to tribal nations.

If you can just indulge me, one more question. Would you agree that right today, in North Dakota, we have inadequate, grossly inadequate law enforcement services in Indian Country?

One area we are concerned about are the FSA offices.

I am very concerned about the ongoing challenges that Puerto Rico experiences.