Mr. Chairman, thank you. And truly, I am very glad that we are holding this hearing today on such an important topic.

And all we want is fairness. That is all we want.

Last month, Senator Stabenow and I hosted our first Finance Health Care Subcommittee hearing of the year, since May was mental health month.

Last week, Grassley, Rounds, and myself dropped in a bill that creates a special investigator act.

We need to step up. We need to do something that is meaningful, and housing and transit is the right way to do it.

We urge the Committee to provide support for the implementation of integrated care programs by primary care providers.

I want to thank Senator Daines and others who have gotten on the bill that I have to stop the threshold doubling that was done by the ops management, that was done, by the way, on the very last day of the Trump administration.

So in a previous life, I processed beef as an added value to the farm. And I can tell you that there is more demand out there from these small processors than they can fulfill right now.

Look, a conversation we have had in the past deals around consolidation in the meat industry.

I recently introduced legislation with Senator Cortez Masto to make permanent a CARES Act policy that I championed allowing first-dollar coverage of virtual care under these high-deductible health plans.

the January 6 Commission that went down a couple of weeks ago to -- in a partisan vote is very upsetting to me, because quite frankly, we need to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6.

I didn`t come to Washington D.C. to get nothing done. I came to try to work for the betterment of this country and for the state of Montana.

I think getting to the bottom of what happened on January 6 is no different than a 9/11 commission.

I don`t know anybody that I represent, that wants to suppress people from voting.

Folks have weaponized the filibuster.

I think if they`re able to get done in a bipartisan way, I think we`re much better off because I think they`ll stand the test of time much, much better.

Water is life. You know, if we don't have good water, it ain't just the fish that are going to die.

But the truth is all of our drain goes to a port, and if we can't get it out, we are done.