Mark Amodei

I think we need to take care of business in terms of those core functions.

If we want to screen people for metal before they go vote, that is fine with me.

I think the screening culture needs to change.

So that is an important thing in terms of our expectations.

I want to join in Congresswoman Herrera Beutler's thing about, you know, it would be nice just to have kind of the general accounting info folks...

I feel like I would be doing legislative malpractice, however, if I didn't talk about the coronavirus.

I think it just shows how much we all value everything you do.

Since then, the benefit now, only because we gave it a boost in the last appropriations process, is around a little over $29 a week.

The benefits at that time were about $31.50 a week.

When I first came here--I got elected in '12--that first session, a number of us lived on SNAP for a week.

I have done the home visits of people, the new mothers, and seen the despair and the conditions.

I am really concerned--and I saw the President had a directive for military personnel especially about buying American.

The purpose of my accepting your invitation to testify falls under the lessons learned category.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I am guessing if it was written the right way, you might get it through, and then we will just see who supports Indian Country and who doesn't.

Give us the stuff that you think has been in the hopper for however long.

I can see there are some things that there are no cultural differences about.

I have been a big believer in lethal aid to Ukraine to get Russia's attention.

We have to go to the root of the problem.

The funding that the President wanted to cut was wrong.

The wall is a 14th century solution that is not going to stop those people.

People back home still, to this day, cannot understand how we spend $750 a day to house children for really long periods of time.

This is certainly a sad stain in our Nation's history of what has happened with this period, and we are not through it yet.

You don't get much worse, I think, as far as government policy doing things like this.

How does it get to be $750 a day?