Rick Allen

Until this Administration pushes to do a better job of matching people with these jobs and disincentivizing the COVID culture of not working, these problems that we are talking about today are only going to persist.

I think a vast swath of bipartisan Members here in the United States House believe that Canada is not living up to its commitments under USMCA.

I thought Canada's proposal fell woefully short.

We have a lot of great things to offer, energy independence in our area.

It is very important that we get to hear this information, and I am very grateful.

I just think it is a no-brainer.

By having these direct credits, we can actually invest in them ourselves.

Those delays can be very costly. But again, we have seen RUS working towards improving that.

I really think they can directly benefit from this. It just gives them another added value to that output.

It is a big deal for them. And so it is a worthy thing. It needs to be developed over time.

It is imperative that we help these regions out in a larger context.

We are undergoing tremendous inflation right now, but it is because of a pandemic for 2 years.

This Administration is going to destroy the country.

Two years ago we were energy-independent.

Our very survival as a nation could be at stake here.

I don't know how this Administration sleeps at night with what is going on in this country.

The only thing that is going to save this country is to unleash our energy economy.

I am just extremely concerned about the increasing number of factors that are impeding the ability of our farmers, input costs especially, to produce the food and fiber that we all depend on.

I will tell you it is very disingenuous for President Biden and the Biden-Harris Administration to continue to use the war in Ukraine as an excuse for why the input costs are so high when he took more oil off of the markets with his…

If we don't unleash our energy economy, it is going to destroy our nation.

We urge you to include in your speech a strong commitment to the American people that you will end this war on American energy.

Failed policies by your Administration have devastating impacts, both at home and abroad.

What we are seeing today, going on right now, the American experience for the family right now as you go to the grocery stores, you are wondering about food prices, you are wondering about lack of supplies on the shelves.

We should be talking in this Committee about what we can do and what that is going to look like a year from now for the American family and for our food supply.

I have very strong concerns about that.