Bruce Poliquin: “It is really critical that we stay as a country on offense; we must prevent this risk from coming to our homeland.”

The national debt--I am pivoting a little bit, Mr. Powell--is about $21 trillion. It is horrible.

I want to see the data. I want to see what grants were issued, who did the research, how much money for the research, how much money for the overhead, who these investigators are, and what their record is of awarding that administrative…

At what point do you think the debt service payments, the interest on that debt becomes a problem for our economy?

I know deep down in Mr. Young's heart, he is a Mainer at heart. I know that. I have been to Alaska. It is a good State. Maine is a great State, and, as a result, I know Mr. Young is going to support this amendment.