Lisa McClain

Americans are paying more for just about everything: groceries, rent, gas.

Americans still are struggling under the weight of inflation.

Not surprisingly, the Inflation Reduction Act has not delivered on its promises that the Democrats claimed it would.

I believe the lack of transparency in third-party litigation is not only a threat to our legal system, but clearly a potential threat to our national security.

Foreign countries, such as China and Russia, could use third-party litigation funding to fuel targeted lawsuits designed to weaken U.S. national defense companies.

The lack of transparency in third-party litigation funding is concerning, whether it is dark money on either side.

I am extremely excited to hear about that since this Committee has uncovered that the Biden family has received over $20 million from foreign nationals.

I think you would agree that China is complicit in America's drug overdose and academic problem here?

I think we have to take a look at, if I had a funnel, at really the small end of the funnel, can we stop it before it even gets here? Can we choke it off?

In 2019, over 70,000 people died from an opioid overdose. In 2021, 106,000 Americans died from drug-related overdoses.

Unfortunately, the government bureaucracy appears to have gotten in the way of the American hemp industry and consumer safety, the actual opposite of what they were supposed to do.

Do the job you were signed up to do. I mean, I am almost on the opposite. I think we should start rescinding dollars until people actually start doing the job they signed up to do, and stop with the excuses. It drives me crazy.

So, it is good for business. It helps protect children. It was instituted in the 2018 Farm Bill, yet the FDA has slow-walked, maybe, not even at all, done any sort of regulation on this?

I mean, that is like cats and dogs living together.

If there is a consequence, meaning I have a CBD product and I say it is X and it is less than X or, unfortunately, more than X, whatever it may be, is there any consequence to my action if I falsify what is in the ingredients?

Let me be clear. Further bloating the Federal bureaucracy is not the answer.

The American people need to know what is in their products, and the FDA has the power to enforce reasonable regulations by regulating CBD as a dietary supplement or food additive.

Can we talk about my question, though, and my question is, is it possible that some of these over 530,000 got-aways are smuggling fentanyl? Is it possible?

The cover up is always worse than the crime.

I think is great. So. thank you again. We have heard a lot of rhetoric today.

That is our job, and that is what we are doing. CMS' own estimates show that Medicaid and CHIP state expenditures would increase by $40 million.

This Administration has chosen to reward those who enter the country illegally, with release from custody in many cases.

We have three co-equal branches of government, and we have to stop changing the definitions, and we have to follow the rules of law.

I think what it has to do, to answer your question, is incentives. I think people are logical and people do things that they believe is in their best interest, and we incentivize people and we incentivize their behaviors, so that is what…

We have got to stop letting the agencies run with these. We have to follow the law.