The truth of this whole situation that we have got to weigh and think about is the reason this has happened is because more efficient farming systems and approaches and companies deliver lower-cost food for consumers.

We should be rolling back the harmful Biden administration policies that are threatening the U.S. energy renaissance.

You know, I think what we are going to hear today are two competing visions for how we help rural America.

I hope that there is a universal acknowledgment that there has never been--and certainly in the tax reform we did--any pernicious racial intent in the sense of trying to benefit a given group at the expense of another.

When our Government leaders start attacking our economy directly, that is where we have significant concerns.

There is a real lack of accountability when there are subsidies, and especially the further removed the subsidies are from the system.

The financial woes of many big-city transit agencies pre-date COVID and are tied to chronic financial mismanagement.

Last month, our Democratic colleagues broke from the bipartisan approach we had maintained in dealing with this crisis.

I think should come together and responsibly reauthorize the FAST Act and in the process reduce wasteful, outdated, and duplicative spending.

To add insult to injury, we sent these billions to transit agencies without requiring them to implement any reforms.

It is staggering how much we have just spent.

I think if we are willing to cover 100 percent of the costs of the transit systems, that is great.

Should the local jurisdictions and the States in which they operate, should they have any responsibility at all to contribute to the costs of these systems?

Should the local jurisdictions and States where these systems reside have any responsibility to pay for these systems? Evidently not, according to my colleagues.

Last month, Democrats broke from that spirit of cooperation to ram through a wasteful, partisan $1.9 trillion spending bill.

I think we can both agree that transparency is a good thing--particularly when it involves trillions of taxpayer dollars.

Improper payments continue to be a pressing and expensive issue.

Toomey, who is retiring in 2022, is eager to reach agreement on a targeted guns measure that can outlast Biden`s presidency.

Senator Pat Toomey signaled his willingness to work with President Joe Biden on his efforts to limit gun trafficking and the growing presence of ghost guns.

under the previous administration, as Senator Toomey pointed out, there was relative wage growth that was higher in the lower quintile of Americans

I would like to get back to the most successful economy we had in my lifetime, and it was very much partly a result of the tax reform we did.

I cannot help but reflect on the big picture about this tax reform from 2017 that some of my Democratic colleagues seem not terribly fond of.

So I wish my Democratic colleagues would tell me what is wrong with that picture?

In 2018, if you look at the share of who paid Federal income taxes for starters, the top 1 percent of income earners earned about 21 percent of all the income--21 percent. They paid 40 percent of all the taxes.

To suggest that Republicans are unwilling to do anything is to simply choose to ignore the very recent history.