"I want to thank you, Chair Murkowski, for bringing this to light in this Committee and for the experts here to help us articulate what the challenges are going forward."
"I do fear--one of the things that keeps me awake at night, is we are falling behind China."
"This is a race that I don't think we can lose."
"Every moment you are spending here addressing the issue of illegal crossings is time spent that could be used to stop the flow of illegal drugs."
"We need a solution that secures our border, upholds the rule of law, and accomplishes these goals without separating children from their parents as a default policy."
"Keep in mind, Montana is a long ways away from our Southern Border, but those drugs are coming through our Southern Border."
"Just yesterday the Senate passed legislation that will help combat the meth and opioid crisis in our country."
"We have seen drastic increases in meth and heroin use in Montana."
"One of the areas we actually made some great progress on fairly recently was removing the ban on U.S. beef imports that China had placed."
"I am a big believer in Milton Friedman and free to choose, so I understand."
"I believe we need to make this final push to really, truly move, as has been said by the Trump Administration, move us from independence to global dominance as it relates to energy."