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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 21, 2024

I listened to the gentlewoman's response, and I guess I am confused. First of all, this amendment does absolutely nothing to affect public participation. It does nothing. It does nothing to affect local input. This amendment does apply to…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 21, 2024

First of all, Mr. Chairman, after listening to the gentleman from Florida, I would like a double dose of whatever he is taking. Secondly, Mr. Chairman, what our amendment does is, it addresses something that I think both Conservatives and…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 21, 2024

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 8, strike lines 15 and 16, and insert the following: ``(B) Limitation.--A general permit issued under…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 21, 2024

I thank Chairman Graves and Chairman Rouzer for working on this legislation. Mr. Chair, the reality is that America has been wrapped in a bureaucratic morass. We have been wrapped in red tape. It is impossible to do things like build…

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Mar 21, 2024

I thank my friend from South Carolina for yielding and for his leadership on energy. We sure are going to miss your voice. We have a few more months left before you leave Congress, but you have been a great advocate for American energy and…

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

I appreciate the opportunity to address the disaster at our southern border. The grief that has been brought upon the American people in the past 3 years is unspeakable. It was brought on strictly by policy change. It is the exact same…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

It is a percentage, yet this bill tries to come in and create a level playing field, create certainty, and create economic conditions that make sense. My friends are sitting here saying: Oh, Big Oil is profiting. They are profiting because…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

I have sat in this Chamber, and I have listened to folks debate and raise concerns and problems about the legislation that is before us right now. I have heard people talking about how this is extreme, about how it is a gift to oil and gas…

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Garret Graves
@garretgraves· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

I thank the gentleman from Minnesota for yielding. Mr. Speaker, $9,600, that is how much the average American household is paying today in the higher cost of living in the United States as a direct result of policies of the Biden…

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

This was how you try to get to a 'yes,' America. The answer is, yes, illegal aliens are being pulled from the cartel pipeline at DHS-established Regional Processing Centers in Central and South America and flown directly into the interior…

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

These are the words of the Biden administration.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

Thus we have shifted. So it's where a sovereign nation exercises its authority upon sovereign soil, would you say, like our embassies--our embassies across the world are considered our sovereign soil, are they not?

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

A sovereign border in the United States, and for any country, is critical under laws to ensure--it is the responsibility of the country to ensure--

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

Secretary Mayorkas has taken his ill-conceived interpretation of parole and has perverted it to accelerate the mass entry of aliens.

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Clay Higgins
@clayhiggins· Republican · LA· Mar 20, 2024

They continue to make the U.S. Government the logistics arm of the international drug cartels.

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