That will help recoup lost revenues right now to close the tax gap and will reduce the deficit.

Passports, it is insane. We have had 9 million illegal crossings, the floodgates opened on the southern border.

I think I am strongly against that.

we have to establish security against weaponized AI from criminal networks and from nation-states that will use AI against our Nation.

the backlog. Well, it is going to take 18 months to process. It is going to take 6 months to process this.

we do not build AI into our own governmental enforcement systems that would threaten the individual rights and freedoms of Americans.

the provisions in the IRA could lower energy bills for Pennsylvanian families by more than $341 per year.

I hope that we can continue to have a humane, appropriate, lawful asylum system.

The vast large percentage of these sponsors--these kids are getting sucked into sex trafficking, primarily, human slavery.

Our Southern Border--I have walked every foot of it--is 100 percent controlled by cartels on the Mexican side of that border.

I hope all of us as Americans, can begin to address that issue, because nobody, especially the refugees, are not doing well from this challenge.

I am telling the Executive right now, you are watching this, we are not going to allow you to crucify the inspector general that is revealing the horrors of your policy--85,000 lost children.

DHS, under Secretary Mayorkas is responsible for that.

A physical barrier is part of a security system that includes physical barriers to deter and delay an attempted criminal crossing.

Since President Biden was inaugurated and made perhaps the poorest decision in the history of poor decisions by hiring Secretary Mayorkas.

I hope that in future committees we could stop demonizing immigrants.

And I think I clarified for America why we were interested in Hunter Biden because he sold access to his father, the big guy.

This administration has accommodated their efforts.

They have unfettered access to the communities of America, and they traffic in two things, drugs and human beings.

Republicans are only interested in Hunter Biden's deceptions regarding his IRS-confirmed receipt of $17.3 million from shady sources

From what we have heard today, it is completely irresponsible that President Biden from his first day in office he signed an Executive Order pausing border wall construction.

Russia has a right to a presence in the Arctic as opposed to China.

It was one of the most important tasks that we could complete.

You need icebreakers. The nature of the ice may change, but we need vessels that can navigate effectively.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.