We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

We have to--you are in the Education Department, you have to educate people on what is available.

You have the ability to withdraw funding if it looks like these things are--that is some of the hardest things to do, as we know.

I mean, how do you justify a 65 percent increase in this when it was just increased, I guess, what, 4 years ago under the Trump administration?

We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us. The President overrode us.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our…

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

Small businesses are the heart of our economy and our communities, especially in West Virginia where more than 98% of our businesses are small businesses.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have.

if you want to know why that divide is becoming bigger and bigger, rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have. And that is so important.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

I personally am not one of them.

One out of every three franchise owners say they wouldn't own a small business without the franchise business model.