Brian Mast

Protect them from what? Why do they need to wear a mask and gloves, if they are not being poisoned?

Why do you have to wear a mask and gloves, if you are not being poisoned?

The question isn't: Are you doing what the Florida Department of Health says? The question is, on the table: Are those soldiers and civilians being poisoned by that situation?

I guess what I am asking in talking about the statement that Audubon has made, are the birds the canaries in the coal mine here?

What is it doing to your people? Answer that question.

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

Are those civilians and soldiers working directly on top of that, breathing it in 8-10 hours a day in insufferable conditions, are they being poisoned?

I do very much appreciate it.

we know that absolutely toxic algae blooms have an impact on the species that birds rely on for their food sources.

Those who had the most to lose have done the least.

This is the kind of stuff that pisses people off around the United States of America.

I would make that recommendation for those looking to depart Asia, to consider moving to the ports of Florida.

Do any of you panelists believe that those 80,000 additional IRS workers are going to be there to help expedite refunds to individuals and businesses and others, or are they there to help collect?

I thank my colleague for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I was asked by somebody about this piece of legislation, the Congressional Gold Medal for the 13 killed on August 26, and why not a gold medal for the thousands that have been killed in the…

I would hope that he would apologize to all Americans for his opening statement, which I found to be just ignorant and disgusting.

Can you think of anything creatively that could be done through the FAA to ground these flights of illegal immigrants across the United States of America?

I just have to address what has to be one of the most ignorant opening statements I have heard ever in this committee.

I must oppose the en bloc package. The two reasons are, one, having to do with the Burma Act and, No. 2, having to do with the failure to include the ROI into this en bloc package.

We do not need to hear lies.

Simply put, Congressman, what you have said is dead wrong.

He lies every time he steps in front of the camera.

I think that everybody looking for an explanation about what happened and how everybody got it so wrong...

Let's be bipartisanly honest here for a moment. We just walked out of probably the most bipartisan moment in the last couple of years, a classified briefing with the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary, the Secretary of State, and others. There…

If our people aren't safer, then we shouldn't move out of there. And I don't think that that metric is going to be met.

In the short-term, we went from a situation, where the Taliban were our hostages, to a situation, where Americans, and those that helped us, are now basically the hostages of the Taliban, within Afghanistan.