I am an eternally optimistic person, Mr. Chairman.

We must ensure that our Native communities have the resources they need to recover and thrive.

How are they going to be able to do their job so that they can handle what's going on on the southern border?

Would you agree with me when you talk to your Border Patrol agents, they tell you they need barriers, physical barriers, technology, and people?

They're saying they don't have time to do their job securing the border because they need the three things I just mentioned: barriers, technology, and people.

When I talk to the Border Patrol agents, they tell me they need barriers, technology, and people to address the situation.

how do you help them jump start their economies and get them going, particularly in regard to tourists?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, again.

So, for planning a budgetary certainty, would you prefer, and I would ask Director Omishakin first and then Director Panos, would you prefer guaranteed an increased funding, or would you rather gamble with the application process for a DOT…

If Carper, Capito, Cardin, and Cramer can't solve this problem, nobody in the alphabet can.

It is my hope that we can continue the trend by crafting a reauthorization bill that meets the priorities of North Dakotans and Marylanders alike.

Improved and safer roads can mean a connection to a job or other essentials in a more reasonable, or at least a less unreasonable timeframe.

Madam President, I rise today to talk about how Congress can work together in a bipartisan way to pass infrastructure legislation, following my colleagues from Ohio, from Wyoming, from Iowa--and my colleague from North Carolina is here as…

What can we do to make sure that these programs actually are usable to you and to others that are working not only in agriculture, but rural America?

You know, when you look at the cost of equipment now for our farmers, it is just unbelievable.

I would ask that for the other witnesses as well, and we could kind of go in the order that you gave testimony.

Good to be here with you.

Every single American benefits every single day from good farm policy.