Buddy Carter

If indeed this is the problem that exists, and that is, they're trying to escape violence in some of these areas in Central America and we're sending them to cities that actually have a higher violence rate, you know, how can you say…

For instance, Baltimore and St. Louis, where they've defunded the police, both have significantly higher violence rates.

This is inter-generational theft that we are talking about here.

I look at them and I think, oh my gosh, what are we doing to you? What are we doing to you all?

The budget makes growth enhancing investments that we need right now.

It is hard to understand how it can take this long.

This is a real problem that I have had many calls in my office about.

It is very concerning to me.

I have got three Superfund sites, and two of them have been on the NPL list for over 20 years.

We need to get to the bottom of it, obviously.

I hope that, you know, we do everything we can to encourage the private sector to be involved in this and to get out of their way and let them do what they do best.

My concern with H.R. 3 is it is going to stifle innovation.

I think about my friends that suffer and that have family members that suffer from Alzheimer's.

The problem to me, from my perspective, is the vertical integration that exists within our healthcare system.

We just want a level playing field.

Why do we let China off the hook while the U.S. continues to reduce its emissions?

At some point you reach a rate of no return, and that is what I am trying to get at here.

But they don't think that we here in the U.S. should be all suffering the consequences, economically especially, and financially, when other countries aren't doing their part.

Look, I believe in climate change, and I think it is real.

I have the honor and privilege of representing one of the great economic engines of the southeast.

As I mentioned, locally the Port of Savannah has been extremely engaged in working with the local community and outside groups to invest in forward-looking decisions that benefit the port and surrounding areas.

We have got a humanitarian crisis down at the border... but we have also got another problem, and that is a national security problem.

Those drugs that are coming across that border, they are going to be in your community next.

There is enough fentanyl coming across the southern border to kill every American several times over.

What is it that makes this particular issue irrelevant, that you are not even covering it?