Barriers are an absolute necessity and part of a comprehensive solution to the crisis at our southern border along with additional personnel and using the technology that we have at our tools.

Congress plays a crucial role in our economy, with initiatives in my district ranging from NOAA's activities...

Great. Thank you for that.

All right. Well, Madam Secretary, thank you so much.

With the possible and pending cancellation of Title 42, the border is at a breaking point and we need to do everything we can to stop the flow of crossing.

The industry needs certainty. The industry needs stability. And we are hoping maybe this is the year we will give it to them.

The faster we can do this, the better, because it looks like we are going to have, yet another year where our taxpayers are going to foot the bill for billions of dollars for temporary facilities, instead of having an actual solution.

A group of 130 plus members of Congress wrote to you, calling on you to immediately take all legal and necessary actions at your disposal, which there are many, to secure the southern border, rectify the dangerous policies this…

Do you support the Jones Act and are you committed to rigorous enforcement of the Jones Act?

My support is tepid, but it is out of a necessary requirement to handle the great influx of illegals, which I wish we wouldn't have to have this permanent procedure, but it seems like we definitely need it now.

Mississippi families, and families all across the nation to be accurate, should not be left holding the bill for FEMA's inability to be transparent about the significant changes it is implementing.

Our, you know, our number one goal is to make sure floor insurance remains affordable and available and this is going to hurt low to moderate income communities more than it will the wealthy.

It is so difficult that Sheriff Perkins can't get volunteers to go make these--carry people out who have been sick or injured.

Let me be clear. We share the same goal of clean, affordable, reliable energy, but we disagree on the speed and the approach for achieving it.

I remain deeply concerned that the deficit spending is getting worse, not better.

I want to speak about the Forest Service's Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, which funds science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes.

Inflation is at a 40-year high, due in part to excessive Government spending.

I urge you to support this vital program by providing full funding for CFLRP in fiscal year 2023.

A greater concern is the demonization of the oil and gas industry, which is an industry that every American depends on.

Top-down policies that force hardships on Americans never works when the costs outweigh the benefits on their everyday lives.

Until the President's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal is coupled with credible offsets and bipartisan plans for long-term deficit reduction, I believe the proposal before us today for the Department of the Interior is excessive and…

It is critical that funding for this program, which addresses critical clean water and aquatic habitat work, is protected.

If we could just clear out some willows, we could provide a landing area for rescue helicopters, which could do this flight in about 20 minutes.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Our country is facing a national security crisis, an energy crisis, a border crisis, and an economic crisis, but here we are, voting on cannabis legislation. How is this helping our constituents who are…

Last year I introduced H.R. 6176, with the goal of preventing the Secretary of Energy and the President from doing exactly what they announced this week, tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without issuing a plan for American energy…