Brian Mast

I agree with you, Secretary. If we didn't believe that they were responsible, they wouldn't be in place.

So, the request is, let's make it permanent and extend those protocols to truckers that are carrying anything.

So, I would say it in this way. I think, you and I could agree that a trucker is not a safer driver because they are carrying Frosted Flakes that might be on the waiver list versus laundry detergent.

So, the request here is, for our truckers, the administration, it is clearly determined that this kind of flexibility for truckers, it is not a major safety threat.

Did I address my remarks to you? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman is not stating a point of order.

Point of order. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman may state his point of order.

As all remarks are supposed to be directed to the Chair, Madam Speaker, when is a life a life? Madam Speaker, when is a life a life? I will open it up for the rest of my colleagues over there. I would wager none of my colleagues on the…

You guys are to blame. That is what you were doing and everybody should be pointing their fingers at you.

The Biden Administration created the problem.

This is what people hate about Washington, DC. It's a simple question.

I thank both the chairs and the ranking members for their work on this piece of legislation and, specifically, helping to combat some injustices. Injustice number one is this bill works to prohibit once and for all, finally getting rid of…

Zelensky came to the United States of America, said we're the leader of freedom, we have to be the leader of peace.

I hope that these are bare minimum things that take place before the United States of America consider resuming any commerce with Russia, Putin, whatsoever, before we consider lifting any sanctions whatsoever.

Negotiate from strength, not from weakness.

Would there have to be a cease-fire for America to lift our sanctions?

This our country, these are our sanctions, this what we're doing.

So for America and our sanctions and our commerce resuming, does Russia have to be out of the Ukraine?

The Trump Administration, whether you like them or not, had an incredible military prowess.

What is this Administration doing to show Iran that they are arrayed in such a way to say to them that we are serious and that if we have to take military actions because nothing else works, that we will and that they're well aware that we…

So you'd have to think we're naive to think that this Administration right now is doing something to array the United States military in such a way to say that we are serious, that if we have to take military action because nothing else…

Dammit, I am going to miss my friend Don Young. My other close friend, Representative Higgins and I, we sat next to him pretty much every single day for nearly the last 6 years, and I can tell everybody that for every story that you have…

Sir, I want to talk a little bit about 5G, FAA, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and a connection, a relationship between all of them and how they are working together in order to make sure that we have safe…

We cannot afford that. We need the TTC to work and it is good to see them considering semi-conductors.

And it would be helpful right now if the U.S. had whatever our maximal gas production capacity was so that we could help our friends when they are in trouble, so that we could serve our geopolitical aims to reduce Russian influence in this…

I just want to thank you again for trying to articulate what those experiences are for folks who have never had that firsthand.