Richard Burr: “I thank my colleagues for their time tonight, and I urge all of our colleagues to prepare. This will be back up. I yield…”

Nobody has worked harder on this issue, I think, on the Hill than I have.

If you can take the outline you just presented to me and get somebody from the Administration to fill in in between the action steps that are going to be taken, you might have a plan.

Are you beginning to see the pattern as to why a plan is important? This has been a well-orchestrated event up to this point.

I will write the Secretary and ask him what the criteria is to end the state of emergency.