This widespread consolidation throughout the marketplace has allowed these dominant firms to set the rules of the game.

I am deeply concerned about the use of emergency powers during this pandemic.

Congress has been proven quite adept at delegating authority to the President over the years.

I love that response. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been a dear friend of mine since high school.

These are policy choices that led us here.

The law has shortcomings, let's put it that way.

I believe in limits to Executive Power and I think it is critically important that we do that.

The NEA was intended to end perpetual States of Emergency, it has actually resulted in Presidents freely renewing emergencies.

I wish I had chosen it myself.

Congress passed the National Emergencies Act, as we have all discussed, to try to place guard rails around the President's use of emergency authority.

I think it is corrosive to the institutions and I suspect--well, I know you all agree.

The rise in price is the direct result of this Administration's assault on the oil and gas industry.

As noted, we actually have bipartisan agreement on the importance of this issue and those are rare agreements these days.

If you turn down domestic supply, if you make it impossible for us to meet the demand for fossil fuels here... we got to go hat in hand to OPEC, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

I think it is a great bill.

I am a strong supporter of needing infrastructure, as is well-noted in debates in this Committee and believing that we need a fence and a wall and we need to have infrastructure on the border, the southern border to manage that crisis.

It is just patently absurd that we would be operating under a 'emergency' for almost as long as I have been alive.

Obviously we are going to original intent, talking about the Framers' intent.

In the beef-processing industry, four dominant companies control 85 percent of the market.

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I thank my friend. Some wise counsel there. I wish they would heed it. Mr. Speaker, I yield next to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Burchett).