Byron Donalds

The frustration we are having in Congress you are seeing, which I am going to tell you right now is growing, is the complete disregard for fiscal sanity at the Department of Defense.

I believe that we should uphold that agreement. I do. But when you see Russian troops amassing on the border of the same country, we have an agreement to protect and you do nothing, your inaction as the Commander in Chief cost the United…

We have spent $114 billion on the Ukrainian conflict to defend Ukraine, which, by the way, I do think we should do, but at the same time, we have recklessly disregarded our own southern border and our own national security.

The issue is, is that while spending upwards of $114 billion in said conflict with, frankly, no end in sight...

What is material is what matters to the financial operations of the company, because the investment is into the company itself, not into the environment writ large, and not into the social system of the United States, or of the world, for…

But I tell you right now, the American people see a big problem with that.

Cutting money from the Federal agencies because we continue to overspend drastically is a good and healthy fiscal thing that we should be doing in our country.

The Federal agencies are spending more than-- up over 40 percent from where they were in pre-COVID spending levels.

I appreciate my colleague from Texas yielding me additional time, but I don't think I will need another minute. Mr. Speaker, we should be voting for this measure. This is a measure to stop a Federal agency from stepping over its bounds and…

I actually want to welcome the people who are here in the gallery. I am glad they are here to see this. What they are witnessing is actually something functional that Congress should be doing. We have a Federal agency called the ATF that…

The EPA, under the Biden Administration, has actually set a very ambitious and unrealistic emissions-regulated goal.

I believe it is probably the worst financial regulatory framework we have ever created.

The regulatory environment and banking is really restrictive. It is going to cause us major issues.

I do believe wholeheartedly that your agency is unconstitutional.

I think you were given broad latitudes under, frankly, partisan government at the time, to not even really be accountable to the people's branch of government, the legislative body.

We are spending far more money than we have. We are $32 trillion in debt.

I think it is time that we start putting to rest the ridiculous political arguments that typically come from the other side of the aisle.

Listen, the top 20 percent pay 70 percent of all Federal income taxes in this country.

I am not trying to play politics. I am trying to understand exactly what we are talking about...

This whole gas stoves thing makes no sense.

I find that to just really be laughable, to be honest.

I find it to just be highly disrespectful that the Department of Energy was asked to be here, they are not here.

This notion of chasing down the Green New Deal fantasy which, by the way, half the globe is ignoring.

We need to get serious in the United States. And if we want to have an economy where everybody has got to be able to earn money in and we want to have an energy grid that is sustainable, what we cannot do are these crazy demands from the…

What we should be doing is... making sure that there is actually cheap and readily affordable energy for our businesses and for our people...