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I believe sooner or later we are going to have to get a budget that works for this country, based on priorities and based on our values.

There have been reports, the Congressional Research Service highlighted some potential constitutional concerns of what we are talking about.

As I said before, the authority to tax was said by the First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be the power to destroy, and we are very concerned about that.

I would just ask any of you here in the business arena, do you think it is legal and appropriate for Congress to relinquish our constitutional authority to levy taxes?

First, I want to thank all of you for your attendance today.

I want to start with Ms. Bowman. I would like to thank ANGA for supporting S. 1210, which is my bill, the permitting reform bill, that I introduced with Senators Cassidy and Heitkamp last week.

It is about creating timelines. It is not about running roughshod over any kind of environmental review or anything. It is just trying to move the process along to keep it from stalling out.

The stalling out or the length of time of the permitting creating so much uncertainty at a time when we have a critical need for new and improved and expanded infrastructure.

If you all have the expertise and everything, we have got to make sure that the people in the United States of America, 300 plus million, understand that we are not in a position to take care of ourselves either over regulations or a lack…

I think there is a balance between the economy and the environment. We have a responsibility, but also we are very vulnerable, I think, and that is what I am concerned about.

Do you believe the United States is positioned right now and we have sufficient rare earth minerals to do the job that we need done in this country to defend it and to sustain economic growth that we need or have we become more reliant on…

You think right now that we are dependent, strategically, on the things that it takes for the quality of life we have and defending our homeland, that we cannot take care of ourselves right now without outside rare earth minerals?

I want to know are we dependent on other countries or do other countries have control of our minerals which we are dependent on for our economy and the defense of our nation.

We have consistently found better ways to do things, better ways to find a balance between the economy and the environment.

There has to be a balance.

Use Alaska as an example. We used Alaska for the Choice. Alaska is the basis for with Choice.

I just truly want--I just care about the veterans.

Prescription drug abuse is the biggest killer I have in my State of West Virginia.