Mr. Speaker, I will take the next half hour to talk about the national debt, our spending, and our deficit. Somebody asked how big is our national debt? Well, Federal debt is $32 trillion. The $32 trillion mark arrived 9 years sooner than…

There is no middle ground here. There is no room for compromise.

Justice for you, but not for me. Is that what's coming out now?

By introducing the CONVEY Act, which directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey 31.1 acres of land...

I saw that this was still being slow-rolled, and dug in deeper to see what we could do to actually help.

We ought to think about how we reform the process in and of itself, statutorily, so that you don't have to go through this exercise for these land exchanges.

I am certainly supportive of the bill that Mr. Curtis, my good friend from Utah, has introduced, as well as Mr. Morelle, Ms. Plaskett.

I am just trying to get a better sense of how this would work in practice.

I guess what I would say is I am a little bit more confused now than I was at the outset of the hearing.

I think what I would suggest is perhaps we should have a larger conversation as a Committee as to whether or not there should be legislation that gives the BLM Director...to waive that step of the process if they deem it in the best…

Mr. Speaker, wouldn't it be a great idea to tell the executive branch that when they get done selling 10 percent of these buildings or 20 percent of these buildings they will start seeing funding again? Mr. Speaker, I yield back the…

I believe it is a fight for democracy. I believe it is a fight for freedom.

Mr. President, this is now the sixth time that I have been on this floor asking for unanimous consent so that the U.S. Senate can do its job to ratify, to approve the nominations of flag officers' promotions at the Department of Defense…

It appears to me that the lack of an investigative discipline and the failure to take logical investigative steps are a result of bias.

I agree with the vast majority of it. I think we're 90 percent of the way there.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m., on Wednesday, June 21; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the…

we can do something about where we are refining the minerals.

we all agree on this committee in a bipartisan way that lithium and cobalt are going to be essential for the clean energy transition.