Steven Palazzo

What are you going to do to ensure that the Department of Justice, which is the Department of Justice for all, not for one party, stays unbiased and non-partisan?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

When we started peeling back the regulations and we lowered the corporate tax rate, got competitive for the first time in decades, we had a record economy.

We have to get back to work. We have to get our economy going again.

It feels like sometimes the Federal Government's cure to a problem is more dangerous than the disease to begin with.

This extension of supplemental unemployment is devastating restaurants and small businesses in my district.

You know, between the CARES Act as well as the American Rescue Plan, billions of Federal dollars have been allocated to your agency and other agencies.