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Ag producers have waited nearly 3 years for a long-term farm bill, and I would like to thank my colleagues for their efforts thus far. Policy certainty will help our country be competitive. Last year, conferees were appointed to negotiate…
We are very proud of our public power system in Nebraska and thankful that we enjoy some of the lowest electricity costs in the country.
Do you think you are going to be able to work together?
Do you anticipate you are going to be coming up with a plan soon or is it going to be targeted for each area?
Recent nuclear power plant shutdowns have shown us just how important nuclear energy is in keeping electricity rates down.
Thank you for holding today's hearing. Chairman Macfarlane and Commissioners, thank you for being here and sharing your time with us today.
The Department of Defense will need more flexibility, and we will continue to look to Congress as a vital partner in our efforts to realign priorities and address needed reforms in areas like military compensation in order to maximize our…
We are at the conversations with the Russian government on protection of our citizens, of course. If we need to extract our citizens, we will have appropriate arrangements with the Russians to do this.
We do add another part in here and another frustration from our State insurance commissioners, which is that they don't know who is selling the insurance. They would like to have the names of the people who are the navigators out there…
No, I only have 3 minutes. If I have extra time, I will. Today we are taking what should be an easy vote and, frankly, a bipartisan vote. My legislation, the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, does nothing more than ask the…
To clarify one thing, we did have a legislative hearing on this bill with robust debate on it in that committee hearing. Evidently, you didn't get the notice of that hearing.
Congressional oversight, especially over EPA as it rolls out rules that jeopardize the affordability and reliability of American energy, is critical.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy conservatively estimates that these shutdowns will cause the loss of 17,000 jobs.
Americans are very uneasy about a plan being enacted via executive fiat and with what seems to be a total disregard for the costs associated with it.
If this situation on the ground in Iraq does not improve significantly, when do they become a threat to the United States?
We've got some work to do on modernization and we're going to invest in the modernization we need to keep that deterrent stronger than it's ever been. And you have my commitment to do that.
full sequestration level funding generates unacceptable levels of risk to our national security.