This was widely regarded as one of the worst governance systems in the world.

We should acknowledge it. We should respect it, and we should study why those individuals are moving towards Republicans generally speaking.

Thank you again, Chairman Smith, for coming to this beautiful Salt Lake City and for this important field hearing today.

I am so proud to sit next to my good friend Blake Moore. He has been a fierce champion for Utah's unique ecosystem.

I have been blessed the last 10 years to be a Utahan, and I cannot say enough.

I want our federal government to operate a lot more like some of the things that I have grown up with.

Ronald Reagan said that the government's idea on economy is when it is moving, you tax it. If it keeps moving, you regulate it. When it fails, you subsidize it.

How does the administration justify the use of taxpayers' subsidy for this type of environment in which so many children are being used for labor?

We are now representing what the cotton gin represented back 200 years ago.

My concern right now is EVs are dependent on Congo, the cobalt that is produced in these mines.

You are saying to build EVs and using child labor is saving American lives?

I want to kind of touch upon it, was the statement that this push towards electric vehicles, even though there is a cost of slave labor.

Utah is the most innovative. We come under budget, we balance our budget. So, continue to use us as an example for the rest of the country.

And I fear that we are repeating a mistake that we made in the past when we led a worldwide blind eye to man's inhumanity to man.

I am not going to get so excited about where COVID happened to come from. What I know is that something very dangerous could come from Gain-of-Function research if it's not properly regulated.

I am not going to get so excited about where COVID happened to come from. What I know is that something very dangerous could come from Gain-of-Function research if it's not properly regulated.

We should not be financing Gain-of-Function research.

We should not be financing Gain-of-Function research.