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We cannot allow local governments to try to drive an ideological agenda.

I am a staunch defender and supporter of the EDA, and will fight tooth and nail to make sure that that program gets funded.

The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

I am asking you, please, to look at more diversion into West Virginia--some of the funds and resources that you can to help out in this situation.

We have got a lot of hardworking coalminers put out of work.

I don't want Oregon's hand-me-downs.

Our goal is clear: We want the very best care possible for our veterans.

I would hope that resources would be available to help our agricultural entities deal with this predator that is pretty sneaky and pretty tough to get.

I think sometimes the misconception that our farmers want to be in opposition of environmental stewardship is just a misplaced concept.

I think that ultimately, if those tools are going to be used, we need to make sure that we ensure that private property rights and privacy are taken into account.

I raised the point, even though it is difficult to get from point A to point B sometimes because of the mountains that we have, that we were violating that farmer's rights, and it just felt too intrusive to me.

It just struck me that the EPA, we found out later, had rented a small aircraft to surveil the small farms in the eastern portion of our States.

I think we share with all the witnesses, and really all of us on this Committee and in the Senate, that we realize how important our Nation's farmers and ranchers are, and we don't want to overburden with regulations.

Our voters went to the polls last October and passed a $1.5 billion infrastructure package that actually raised the gas tax in our state.

If we are going to be energy dominant, how are we energy dominant if in an emergency if we are going to rely on a foreign government to provide us a natural resource to be able to provide electricity in New England?

I think that's one area where there can be more involvement to make sure that these things are put in properly and that they are secure.

A lot of it was wasted. It was a wasted opportunity for our state and sort of embarrassing too.

I put together an Act called the GO Act, a Gigabyte Opportunity Act, which is trying to use the tax code to drive investment to these last areas.