Gary Peters

I share the Surface Transportation subcommittee of this full committee, and I also want to thank Senator Brown and Senator Vance for their leadership...

I have introduced a bill, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act, and this bipartisan, bicameral, and long overdue legislation will address the long-standing land claims.

The Biden-Harris administration has certainly maintained a solid commitment to reaching settlements to resolve Tribal land and water claims.

I was pleased that President Biden's budget request would provide funds for existing Indian land and water claim settlements.

I introduced the Federal PFAS Research Evaluation Act. It is cosponsored by a bipartisan group of Senators Moran, Shaheen, and Durbin.

The Great Lakes are not only in our DNA, but are a critical resource for drinking water, in fact, 40 million people drink water out of the Great Lakes.

I would hope that the panel will take a closer look and deciding how to the pay needs are different depending on park locations.

I do not think anybody can take a look at our response to COVID and say it was a dramatic success. No, it was a miserable failure.

If the Administration gives us the middle finger there is just no enforcement mechanism.

Congress has to reclaim its oversight capability.

There should be nothing partisan about the origin of COVID.

We are not trying to change the First Amendment. We are trying to define the difference between speech and conduct.

The days for the tech industry to be allowed to self-regulate and to police their own systems are over.

They are absolutely not doing everything they could be doing.

This is a topic that is very important to my district in Colorado and also to me personally.

We need to change the incentive structure, and that is something over which this committee has some control.

This is basically a huge subsidy to the tech industry and a disincentive for them to remove this dangerous content.

We are asking you today to commission a congressional investigation and to subpoena tech companies, including Meta and Tencent, to investigate how they moderate payments and how much they earn off of illegal drug sales.

Why are we still sitting here talking while so many Americans, and especially so many young Americans, are dying?

It looks like there is a lot of diversity but there really is not.

There is very little information in the public domain about who makes these drugs.

Senator Lankford, you are recognized for your questions.

I think there were 12 FDA-approved manufacturers, fludarabine, which is the one I mentioned here earlier, a critical drug for treating childhood and adult cancers.

I share the Surface Transportation subcommittee of this full committee, and I also want to thank Senator Brown and Senator Vance for their leadership...

Norfolk Southern is not yet living up to that commitment.