Joe Biden still hasn't showed up to East Palestine.

Pete Buttigieg took 3 weeks for him to show up.

I introduced the bipartisan legislation to make the New Market Tax Credits permanent, H.R. 1321, and we had 126 cosponsors.

We have serious concerns about the impact that the $80 billion that the IRS is receiving, and its impact on families and small businesses.

Can we agree that at the very least, wherever we think about locating nuclear waste--probably not a great idea to have it in proximity to school children?

Last year Democrats in Congress rammed through $80 billion in mandatory funding for the IRS after your department asked for it in conjunction with the President's first budget proposal.

The $650 billion small business surtax will hit mom-and-pop small businesses, violating President Biden's pledge not to increase taxes on small businesses.

The American people, they deserve to know exactly how the Biden Administration plans to raise their taxes, and the impacts those policies will have on them.

The $37 billion in new taxes on American-made energy will kill jobs, raise prices, and make us more dependent on foreign countries for our energy needs.

And just because these kids and their parents are not big-time donors, doesn't mean that they can be ignored.

We are going to take our time--and I hope you appreciate this--to unpack what is in this massive budget proposal.

I want to be on the record. I want to be crystal clear about this. I will do this as long as it takes until we get some fidelity for what happened to these school kids.

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Missouri has 20 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 13 minutes remaining.

At Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District in the St. Louis area, we have nuclear material that is not only in proximity to a school, it is actually on school grounds.

I want this fixed for these school kids, and until we get some answers here, and frankly, some justice for these school kids, I am going to hold every nomination at the Department of Energy.

I thank Chairman Graves for his amazing leadership on this important topic. The arrogance of liberal bureaucrats knows no bounds. When we think that they cannot go any further, they decide that they can regulate the rain that falls from…

Can we agree that at the very least, wherever we think about locating nuclear waste--probably not a great idea to have it in proximity to school children?

I want to be on the record. I want to be crystal clear about this. I will do this as long as it takes until we get some fidelity for what happened to these school kids.