Rob Portman

I did not mean to be ungrateful there, because I know there was lots of back-and-forth.

Let me just be specific. You talked about $6 million, roughly, in the budgets this year.

I want to express our sincere appreciation to Senator Portman for his support of our projects as well as his leadership in pursuing balanced permitting reform.

Absolutely. I was going to get down to your project next. I am really impressed that so many people know how to pronounce Mid-Barataria too.

Well, thank you, Senator Landrieu, and, Ms. Terrell, would you like to speak now or be available to answer questions, because Senator Landrieu, even though she is no longer a Senator, has learned how to use all of her time.

I think the Obama Administration was slow to get it started. I think the Trump Administration has not been aggressive enough in permitting a permitting reform executive director to be permanent.

As Senator Portman mentioned, these efforts already have resulted in saving FAST-41 projects over $1 billion in costs through avoided permitting process delays.

The system, as we have heard from our constituents constantly, takes too long. It is complicated, sometimes very bureaucratic.

Our job is to push, push, push.

I would think we are going to end up there. We have to figure out a way to provide that information.

Why can't all that information be on the dashboard?

I know Senator Stabenow talked about one of the issues that is a big deal to me, which is how you deal with the opioid crisis and the people who need naloxone.

More than half of them, we think, are not showing up for the hearing, which is the whole idea: to get them with a family pending their hearing on their immigration status.

We do not have any authority to go out and pull a child back from a sponsor once they are in that sponsor's custody.

We look forward to, once again, under the leadership of Senator Murkowski, getting some legislation to the President's desk.

It is time for us to get it up and going and people are excited about it.

It does not require any surge. It does not require any showing of material injury.

I think we lose a tool that could be very important for us in a true national security situation.

It is a very extraordinary remedy that ought to be used very carefully and very selectively.

I am supportive of cracking down on China. I think it is necessary.

Capital is not that patient, and they were losing capital.

We are all talking about permitting now on both sides of the aisle, how to have that infrastructure now or go further.

It creates this Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council.

If we can, spend some money up front to avoid some of the longer-term problems and figure out what works.

We did pass legislation here called the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which has a separate title for pregnant moms, postpartum moms, and these kids with NAS.