"I think encouragement to USAID from the Senate in the House to move these funds quickly."
"I think the Javelin's probably closer to 18 to 24 months and the Stinger missiles, we haven't bought a Stinger missile, according to the CEO of Raytheon, for 18 years."
"I would think some of the overall--this big increase you asked for in the overall budget, maybe there are some ways to justify this $2.2 billion to fill some of those gaps."
"For a long time one of the oldest and most successful conservation commissions in the country was funded just by hunting and fishing licenses."
"Last year, when you testified before this Subcommittee, I spoke a great deal about how the COVID-19 pandemic put an unprecedented strain on our economy and its workforce."
"It is wrong for the Federal Government to dictate what that workforce should look like, and for bureaucrats in Washington to determine the speed in which we get there, that should be left up to States..."
"This administration's inflation forecast has already showed prices rising this year at nearly twice the pre-pandemic rate."
"These increases have helped the NIH regain ground from the years of largely flat funding in inflation-adjusted dollars."
"I am talking of course about the economic impact of inflation, an invisible tax that takes its toll on every American."
"I'm alarmed by the potential of widespread loan forgiveness currently under discussion by the administration. It's an illegal, regressive, unfair, and expensive proposal that does nothing to address t..."
"I had serious concerns that our country would not return to our pre-pandemic unemployment levels, which had been the lowest since the late 1960s."