John Hoeven

I would ask that for the other witnesses as well, and we could kind of go in the order that you gave testimony.

Good to be here with you.

Every single American benefits every single day from good farm policy.

It is truly an honor and a privilege work on behalf of our farmers.

Good farm policy benefits every American every day.

We must strive to uphold our trust and treaty responsibility to this Nation's tribes, and that includes ensuring Indian Country has the resources and tools necessary to provide quality education to students who attend Bureau of Indian…

So if we are not able to develop oil and gas resources in this country, will that shift production to countries like Russia and to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela that have lower environmental standards than we do?

Do you realize that if you were a mineral owner in North Dakota and you owned the surface acres, but that if you share some of that mineral ownership with federal--with Interior, and Interior has no surface acreage, that your moratorium…

We would love to have you out there.

Will you commit to ensure that the CCC funding, Commodity Credit Corp, continues to go for the priorities in the farm bill, as it always has?

The 2022 President's Budget requests $1 billion for Native American Programs, which is $175 million more than the 2021 enacted level.

The Native American Housing Block Grants (NAHBG) and Indian Community Development Block Grants (ICDBG) are both resources that assist tribal communities with access to safe and affordable housing.

The Administration recognizes the need for continued sustained investments in housing and infrastructure in Tribal communities for the long term.

Accelerating the deployment of carbon capture technology is the single most effective thing we can do to lower emissions, while keeping the lights on for families and our economy.

I want to ask you to come out and see what we're doing.

One of the things I brought up is the Move America Program which is legislation that I've co-sponsored with Senator Wyden.

We talked about public-private partnerships and leverage.

The American Jobs Plan provides a $2 billion investment in Tribal communities to expand the supply of affordable housing.

If you could provide, in addition to what I asked initially is how many have been returned to their country of origin versus how many stay of the more than 178,000 came in April.

Showing us those metrics is going to be very important.

Are they released into the public at large or how do you track and know where they are so that you can make sure they go through the adjudication process?

But that adjudication, that court hearing date can be out as much as 3 years right now, correct?

The Administration's fiscal year 2022 discretionary request for the department is highly concerning.

Your first 100 days have been dominated by a border crisis of the Administration's own making.

Good to hear that you're shortening the timeframe.