Kelly Armstrong

The single biggest thing I've heard, and this has been long before I've been here, in the decade or the 11 years since Dodd-Frank was introduced, is in our realm to regulate what we do think were really bad actors.

The basic framework is you should have control over your own data.

I have one real quick response, particularly on family law. The gentleman is correct; those are almost always post dispute. But in a very significant amount of those cases, they are court ordered arbitration, so I don't know how voluntary…

Thank you Mr. Chair. So Mr. Andeer, the 30 percent markup on apps, that's been the same since the company started, since the app started, right?

I think one thing that is consistent is everybody sitting there in the companies you work for are capable of dealing with regulation.

The numbers are the numbers, so, no, the system does not make sense at all.

So right now in North Dakota, we have the same number of people uninsured as we did 10 years ago or prior to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

While the Hatch Act does not apply to--it does not Members of Congress.

We're talking about something that is going on every day constantly.

So there's never been public comment period on this.

Senator Gillibrand, in her role as Senator and not as a candidate for President, has introduced legislation to eliminate pesticides from school lunch programs, demonstrating her misunderstanding of science and production agriculture.

I'm sure introducing legislation that gives more free stuff to more people has nothing to do with her Presidential campaign.

Senator Gillibrand compared pro-life views with racism, this represents a morally vacant position not fitting of a United States Senator.

Bribing people to vote for you for President is a bad way to legislate as a Senator.

By increasing the debt cap from Chapter 12 bankruptcy from $4 million to $10 million, this bill will keep more farmers in fields and farms and in the family.

I am a sponsor of H.R. 236, the Family Farmer Relief Act, and it is important because over the last 20 years, the increase in production from our farmers all across the country has gone up significantly.

If large publishers are having this problem, you can about imagine how adversely affected smaller publishers that do business in North Dakota are by this issue.

I would ask unanimous consent to enter Congressman Sensenbrenner's statement into the record.

A statement for the record by Ranking Member Sensenbrenner submitted by the Honorable Kelly Armstrong.

But unfortunately, we are in D.C. and, never allowing a political opportunity to go to waste, they are going to get marked up in Rules Committee, and we are going to vote on bills this week that just quite frankly have no chance of…

We had two sets of packages that could come to the floor clean this week that would pass, they pass the Senate, the President could sign them by the end of the month, but that is not going to happen.

I believe that prescription drug pricing, it is a conversation that I get, it is one of the biggest ones we get in our office both in D.C. and back in our offices in North Dakota, and it should be a bipartisan endeavor.

One of the best parts about it is we produce it at home. We are closest as we have ever been in this country's history to being food and energy secure

If we are going to say things like stopping the politics and all of that and then also infer that it is the free market that ended up causing most of the coal industry's problems, without at least recognizing that there was a combination…

China controls about 90 percent of the rare-earth metal environment.