I appreciate your--your commitment to making sure that not only do we have good opportunity for student athletes, but we have good universities behind them.

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

Madam Chair, this is a great hearing, great discussion, and thanks for holding this hearing.

While I am not yet convinced we need a digital dollar, I strongly support further exploration in this important area.

I think we were given a bit of a lucky break on that one for that clawback.

if it involves having to raise taxes to pay for critical infrastructure, we should be doing it.

The longer it takes to fully fund these settlements, the greater the cost to the American taxpayer.

there is a lot of talk about resiliency, most time when you talk about resiliency you are talking about climate change.

At some point in time we have got to figure out whether we just shut the dam thing down, and let the Milk River run dry 6 out of 10 years? Or are we going to fix it?

Once again, I will hold you to it.

There are some places where we should mine, and there are some places we should not.

Dam security remains a big priority of mine.

this budget is going to be critically important.

if we are looking at infrastructure being critical for national security, which I believe it absolutely is, then we ought not be playing games.

There is a lot more work to be done.

It has been almost two years since we were promised we were weeks away. These portals have never materialized.

I want to start off by talking about the threat we are seeing from China in this particular space.

Look, this--this is a solvable deal. It is going to take folks communicating.