Steve Pearce: “They refused to make him available. He is the one who ought to be at this hearing today.”

Thank you very much for making sure this pilot project is ongoing, because it is buzzing around the state. People have heard about it, there's a sense of excitement, there's a sense of relief.

Some of the scariest words known to my constituents are, 'I am from the Federal Government, and I am here to assist you.'

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…

I will guarantee you that people in this country right now do not feel safe.