Let me ask Mr. Jones about how do we disrupt the flow of drugs coming across the border?

It will be interesting to be able to see the decision that President Biden and his team make on how they are going to enforce the border, and what that actually looks like for them.

There is not a sign-off, but it's a don't make a decision until we tell you.

So can a field office make a decision on a right-of-way now?

Senator Murkowski from Alaska said that right now Russia is providing more energy to the United States than is Alaska.

But the field office may not make a decision without DC actually signing off on it. Is that correct?

So they cannot make a decision on those. That has to wait.

Choosing to use the tax code to intentionally destroy America's fossil fuel industry, to hurt our economy, to force more American workers to lose their jobs, and to strengthen the economic power of the government's of China, Venezuela…

The provisions threaten the jobs of tens of thousands of American workers.

So help me understand. What's different about--why is this memo needed then if this is exactly the same as it has been in the past?

This letter appears to mean that no decisions can be made in the field office until DC signs off.

I bring news back from Oklahoma to this body and a request for dialogue. The COVID bill that was passed a little over a month ago--that bill provided all kinds of relief. As this body knows, we were deeply divided on that bill and some of…

They limit free access to faith, free access to a free press, free access to assembly.

let me read to you a section of the proposal on infrastructure that has been put out by the White House, just one section of many sections that are there. This particular section on national critical infrastructure reads this way: Funds…

If China claims that it is a co-equal partner in the global community with the United States, it needs to treat itself like one at the WTO.

All of those things are common in China, not to mention the prison camps of the Uyghurs and the multitude of other issues that they have done, as we have talked about, economically, today.

They do forced abortions on individuals and limit the number of children that families can have.

I have to tell you, in this day and age I am amazed at the number of American companies that are still looking to China to do manufacturing, after all the intellectual property that they have stolen, after their immense human rights abuses…

it is exceptionally beneficial to us to not be dependent on a communist nation like China for our rare earths

But you have to also get access to those dollars so that people do not pay a 10-percent tax penalty if they have to get to it.

I want to incentivize more people to be able to save for retirement, but I also want to reduce the penalty that people pay if they have to pull that out.

I have worked extensively on trying to be able to get access to retirement money for an emergency fund without a tax penalty in the process.

I think the U.S. is not doing enough on thinking about, not just how do we create the best ideas in the world, we already do that, to a certain extent, but how do we become the people who put them into the market first.

we are not just sharing information, but we are also not exporting information to other folks like China, that want to be able to steal that information.

In Oklahoma, in particular, in the distribution that has happened to Native locations across my State, they have been extremely efficient in getting the vaccine out.