Steve Pearce: “I really appreciate you having this hearing, because this is at the essence of protecting the communities in the West.”

It is time to get to work and do what we were sent there to do, make hard decisions about very difficult things in a pragmatic and sensible way.

So Washington can say the border is secure all they want, and I appreciate reading your testimony, sir, that says that we have work to do and we need to be more transparent, more honest.

Many of my vets go to the hospital and find out they're going to have to pay for it.

Again, these two bills are designed not to bypass anything, not to cause great destruction in the environment, but to be practical, common-sense approaches to how do we reach the economic potential of a state where that potential is ready…