Richard Shelby: “I believe we need a system where we can accommodate both.”

In a fiscal environment with 8.5 percent inflation, the Department's budget request equates to a cut to our national defense at a time of unprecedented security risks.

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

my amendment requires that the Secretary of the Interior--requires that he complete, or she, pending coal lease applications under the Bureau of Land Management. I believe we cannot allow the Biden administration to block the mining of our…

We also need a strong Army to deter China and respond to provocations, Iran, North Korea, and radical extremist groups.