We need people that want to come here for the right reason to provide for their family a better quality of life.

The president needs to use every bit of power he has as an executive to find a way or ask for an extension.

It is a bipartisan energy security. You cannot be the superpower of the world if you don't have energy independence.

The border is -- we have a crisis at the border. Everyone can see that.

Security is the name of the game, and then you can have...

I don't think the Democrats have all the answers. I don't think the Republicans are always wrong, and vice versa.

There has to be a legal pathway forward. That's all we've been talking about.

People are sick and tired of it.

It's a shame that we've come to this gridlock.

the border is -- we have a crisis at the border. Everyone can see that. I think everyone realizes that something has to be done.

That's not what I signed up for. That's not what I signed up for. And I speak out. I speak out against the Democrat Party and against the Republican Party when it's wrong.

You cannot be the superpower of the world if you don't have energy independence.

We have to embrace... more investments into the cleaner technologies.

I'm not going to be relying on other parts of the world or other countries to delivering energy for what we need for our economy and our defense of our country.

It has -- it has basically transitioned itself to now to where, how can we blame somebody else?

What is clearer now than ever is, party politics is paralyzing our ability to unite.

I ask unanimous consent that floor privileges be granted to David Rosner--he is a FERC detailee with my staff on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources--effective immediately through the end of Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

I need to respond to that. I wasn't intending to do so, but I want to clarify that, and I would hope my good friend would listen to my clarification because it is in the bill. And either someone maybe had not informed you, sir, but…