We cannot continue to air drop in resources erratically when suicides spike in Indian communities and turn around and abandon those communities when patchwork funding runs out.

What they lack is a sustainable funding source. These efforts are at the heart of the trust responsibility our government holds with tribal nations.

Unfortunately, this year it seems like we can provide more money for defense budgets but we cannot put more money into saving lives of Native youth.

I rise today to again speak about the North Dakotans who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country in the Vietnam war. Since March, I have had the honor of learning from families about the lives of their sons, brothers…

I think it is worth noting that it is likely because three commercial scale refineries came online in 2014 and one more is slated for the end of this year.

At a time when we are shutting down domestic supply of biodiesel, we are importing from Argentina, and that makes no sense to us.

I think if you looked at the chart that Senator Ernst just showed you, you would see is a partnership with State Governments.

So, we are not just talking about blender pumps and all of those issues, the infrastructure issues and what that means.

Let us use products that are renewable. Let us use green products.

you should look to the legislative history. That is what lawyers do. That is what judges do.

I do not think we know what volumes of cellulosic ethanol can be produced because we have not given the market certainty, and so we have stalled out investment.

you cannot bootstrap the domestic supply language to deal with refueling infrastructure.

I am a strong supporter of truly 'all of the above' energy policy security.

I think that when we are trying to create a program that meets the goals established by Congress, whether people on this panel agree with the program or not...

I wish there was no question over the management of the RFS or the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to implement the RFS as Congress intended.

This uncertainty and lack of predictability is costing us investments. It is costing us environmentally and it is costing us jobs.

I think it is really important that we understand a little bit better on how you consider imports in the equation when you are developing RVOs.

I want to just for a moment talk a little bit about the process that you went through, and I was, quite honestly, shocked when you came to my office.