That is why Senators Barrasso, Risch, and I are introducing bills to cut our reliance on Russian nuclear fuel while reestablishing our uranium conversion and enrichment capacity to meet our domestic nuclear fuel needs.

We cannot be held captive, which we are right now, by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or countries that have nothing in common with our way of life and our desired governance and democracy and freedom.

Putin has played the long game in weaponizing Russia's abundant energy resources in the region.

On February 24, 2022, nearly one year ago, Putin launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

I rise today to discuss yet another one of the consequences of this President's failed policies, and that is out-of-control crime. Many Democrats have championed a soft-on-crime agenda that has contributed to soaring crime rates. According…

We must evaluate our supply chains and ensure that we are not beholden to countries that do not share our values.

The U.S. has a responsibility and opportunity to support our friends and allies.

I would kindly ask you to take back to the White House the imperative of what it can mean to bring on meaningful production in this country.

This war has taken precious human lives and has had immediate international consequences that will be felt for decades.

The U.S., the EU, and our other allies are working together to support Ukraine.

I am proud that immediately following Putin's invasion last year, members of this Committee acted quickly, on a bipartisan basis, to introduce legislation to ban U.S. imports of Russian energy.

There's not going to be any big movement on more wind out on the Gulf unless we are extracting gas and oil from the Gulf.

We are slow on permitting. You know that. And we have got to speed that up in order to do the job.

We must create a future of energy independence and security from any undemocratic regime seeking to weaponize energy to win a war.

I am yet to find a patient who says a PBM has saved them money.

I think we should not lose sight in any hearing such as this as to the magnificent of our pharmaceutical industry in terms of curing and also managing diseases.

We must not allow Russia to dictate the economic and security terms of post-war Europe.

I will say anecdotally in my office, I have had like 10 of my staff members, I said, who was affected by what happened? About four of them were affected.