We reaffirm the commitment made at the 2023 summit in Vilnius that Ukraine's future is in NATO.

Today we extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance with the final date of membership to be determined when Allies agree that the security environment inside the country is satisfactory.

We reaffirm the commitment made at the 2008 summit in Bucharest that Ukraine will become a member of NATO.

We fully support Ukraine's right to choose its own security arrangements.

So, who in China is supplying these chemicals to the cartels in Mexico?

Is it legal for these chemical companies to provide these chemicals to Mexican drug cartels?

Do you think they are doing anything illegal?

I am certainly not seeing sticker prices on these vehicles be lowered to a point that families, at least in western North Carolina, could afford them.

We should be able to make choices what we want to drive.

Subsidies distort markets, and that's why CEI opposes all mandates and subsidies in the energy sector.

I find it interesting. I am going back to your testimony that you made comments regarding folks needing to work for, let's just call it SNAP benefits.

We have seen President Biden promise time and time again that the middle-class families, families making less than $400,000 per year, wouldn't be affected by proposed tax hikes, and yet he is allowing the Trump era tax cuts to expire.

the most important part of the spending cuts that you have, is the repeal of Senator Manchin's so called Inflation Reduction Act, particularly the energy subsidies, which are huge.

It is the latest trend in policies with an ideological bend.

The consequence of this is even worse than raising the cost of electricity. The massive mis-investment in wind and solar and other handouts--but I don't have time to go into all of them--the cost is also that it is destroying our energy…

the foundation of that is based in the fact that with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act we created a vibrant economy

So, President Biden has told us over and over again that he intends to not ask folks making less than $400,000 to pay more.

I want to congratulate you, Chairman Arrington, on your leadership in passing H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act.

I have not had any conversation with any Member of this Committee that believes that that is the right thing to do, and quite frankly, I am just tired of hearing that political point.

the Republicans have not yet put forth a budget. Number one, because the President drug his feet on getting us a budget.

Another reason that you have not seen a budget from the Republicans is because Speaker McCarthy has desperately been trying to get a meeting with President Biden.

the reality is many years, folks are struggling, and they have to go take out loans to keep their business afloat, and to draw a line at $400,000, because everybody is looking for that breakout year, to draw a line at $400,000 is punitive…

But it does raise taxes on farmers and small businesses that might make $400,000, and I think that you hit the nail on the head when you said that the intent of this, and I think this is most conservatives' problem is to raise revenue that…

I think it's reasonable to allow USPS some modest diversification, but once they--if you think about the USPS making a major leap, say, into banking, or a grocery delivery, and other sorts of things like that, it makes no sense, because we…

The only way out, in my view, is privatization. And I think, you know, Congress can put this off and put it off. In the end, it's going to happen because it has to to survive, it has to diversify.