Clay Higgins

Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death of Americans 18 to 45 years old.

The United States is currently undergoing a horrific drug epidemic crisis. Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid, is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine.

I don't support spending more money. I think we are $31 trillion in debt, enough is enough.

This is an important discussion for us to engage in and certainly it is bipartisan, so.

This was--we are talking about 6 years ago. Call it a billion dollars--just use round monies--and that money was appropriated at the Federal level, it was delivered to the State treasury, and as we sit right now over 60 percent of that…

I think there should be a more direct route to the local government entity or the citizen that is deserving of recovery assistance.

Hurricane Laura hit so hard and so fast, extreme winds devastated a dense area of population in my district.

May I say, as an American citizen born and raised in south Louisiana, working on my 61st year on God's beautiful earth here, I have lived through many brutal hurricanes and I have come to clearly understand that in the modern era the…

Louisiana overdose deaths have increased since 2018...virtually doubled overdose deaths.

We are losing our country down there. We need you to resign. Save the country the pain of your impeachment.

Next year if we have the Majority in this committee, which we shall, you are still in office, you will face impeachment.

You should have accomplished to help you recognize it. This disaster we have at our border, the disintegration of our National sovereignty cannot be sustained.

I appreciate the Secretary's appearance here today.

We are losing our country down there.

Title 42 is a legal mechanism that Border Patrol uses and our law enforcement professionals use to try and stem the tide of millions of illegal immigrants crossing our Southern Border.

The Trump administration began using Title 42 as means to keep the American people safe.

This administration and senior officials at DHS seem to throw all logic and reason out the window.

The Biden administration has created one of the worst border crises in our Nation's history.

If you think it is wrong and illegal, un-Constitutional, by all means, defeat it judicially.

We are spending billions of dollars of the people's treasure to accomplish some dream.

I find troubling though it be it is quite easily observed that my colleagues across the aisle are pushing electric vehicles no matter what.

We have a constitutional obligation to support the Postal Service and, of course, as part of the American narrative, you know, where do electric vehicles fit.

Our critical infrastructure has certainly shown vulnerabilities across the United States and, indeed, the world.

There is just no place for fear to exist as a common factor for our citizenry.

I appreciate your comments. I just suggest that this subcommittee has been, perhaps, not as engaged as we could be.