I represent Montana, we have a very large veterans population, 10 percent of our population, and we started working on compacts and the reciprocity 10 years ago.

We make a promise to those who serve our country to deliver for them, and if the VA is going to make good on that promise, they have to have resources to do so.

Our next step cannot be to immediately renege on that pledge.

Unfortunately, we are not in that boat. The folks here in Congress, I think, have forgot what our mission is.

I think about 3 percent of our farmland is foreign owned; and of that 3 percent, a very small percentage is owned by Chinese individuals or Chinese entities.

Will you commit to this body that you will hold the hearings in the communities that are going to be impacted?

In your testimony, you mentioned how your agency manages 700 million acres of mineral estate, yet the Biden administration has just canceled and withdrawn some leasing from some of the most mineral-rich land in the country.

The Biden administration pulled the leases for purely political reasons.

Do you believe that this withdrawal was proper?

As a known former collaborator with ecoterrorists, it is hard for me and many of my constituents to be confident that your decisions are guided by what is best for this country instead of being guided by what is your political activism and…

I oppose the Biden administration plan to end title 42 this week without a real plan in place for the strain it will put on an already broken immigration system

I oppose the Biden administration plan to end Title 42 this week without a real plan in place for the strain it will put on an already broken immigration system.

This bill is the largest hydropower bill in two decades.

Permitting reform is needed now and it needs to be comprehensive.

I was one of 10 people that helped build the bipartisan Infrastructure bill, the one that's known as IIJA.

This bipartisan permitting bill must be included in any package that comes before the U.S. Senate.

I support the ongoing efforts of Senators Murray and Collins who will work with anybody to get the job done.

It is critical that the Administration provide Ukraine with what it needs in time to defend and take back its sovereign territory.