I would like to thank all of our witnesses for being here today.

I think is a very good thing.

I think Director Black is familiar with it.

I think it is clear that prevention is the least costly and the most effective way to address new invasive species.

Did you find some of the same barriers at the State level that Mr. Enjady referred to?

What is your recommendation on how to create these partnerships to get the larger companies to come in to get the public-private partnerships?

we need more of these partnerships with entrepreneurs like yourself and with companies that are willing to go on the reservation.

I rise today to ask my colleagues to support an amendment I offered, amendment No. 3811, that prevents the EPA and the Corps of Engineers from implementing its waters of the United States final rule. The language for my amendment is…

I will yield the floor to the good Senator from Michigan for a minute. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

I am willing to yield to the junior Senator from Michigan. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The junior Senator from Michigan.

I ask that the Members of this body not only consider the underlying issue and the impact it will have on farmers and ranchers. It will also affect everybody's private property rights. I also ask my colleagues to consider their own…

But we need--all these different regulations, and they've got to figure out how to work with them.

How are we supposed to meet that without just closing power plants? What are you willing to do to help the industry?

And I would encourage you to, between yourself and your people, engage with the farm and ranch groups, sit down and talk to them.

the number one regulation opposed by our farmers and ranchers, not just in North Dakota, but really across the country, is WOTUS, Waters of the United States.

One regulation might stop them from putting in gas-gathering systems on Federal land at the same time they're trying to reduce methane emissions from flares.

But can you see how these things have to fit together?

the cost to comply will likely outweigh the production benefits

Thank you. I'd like to thank my colleague from the great state of Minnesota for that.

So how do we expedite that permitting process on Federal lands? Senator Barrasso and I have a bill to try to expedite that.

You have to help them through the permitting process, and then you are going to have to come up with a way whereby, if the state is doing this, that the Federal agencies work with the state.

You have to provide an exemption process where somebody, and I believe it should be the state, can be the primary regulator.

I rise to talk about the University of North Dakota men's hockey team, which won a national championship last Saturday. Undoubtedly, like everybody else, the Presiding Officer was glued to his TV set watching the exciting game between the…

Is there a process where we can work with the BLM to get an exemption, so the state, if they are undertaking the action, which, as you acknowledged, we are working very aggressively to do in North Dakota, as one example, where we can get…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Congratulating the University of North Dakota Men's Hockey Team