John Cornyn

Added to that, we know that about 60 percent of the electricity that would be needed to charge those batteries comes from fossil fuels.

Is it not true that a tax credit or a tax subsidy, dollar for dollar adds to Federal expenditures, and in the case of a $31-trillion debt, it adds to the debt?

It appears to me that the American taxpayer will be subsidizing the purchase of Chinese-made commercial and used electric vehicles by virtue of these tax credits.

Is there any way that this mandate President Biden has ordered with the stroke of his pen, is there any way that it will do anything except increase the sale of Chinese-made batteries here in the United States?

It is not possible to meet that requirement, due to this constraint on supply chain and battery manufacturing.

In addition to throwing gasoline on the fire of inflation, with $700 billion of additional spending and added to the debt...

This lavish expenditure for the rich, would do virtually nothing to reduce carbon emissions.

Is it not true that a tax credit or a tax subsidy, dollar for dollar adds to Federal expenditures, and in the case of a $31-trillion debt, it adds to the debt?

I do object to the gamesmanship and the playing of a rigged system.

I do object to the gamesmanship and the playing of a rigged system.

I do believe that there is a lot of gamesmanship going on in the industry.

I have heard you talk about the system being riddled with perverse incentives.

Thank you all for the good work you've done modernizing the background check system.

There's really a clash between those values, our democracy with the public's right to know.

I do object to the gamesmanship and the playing of a rigged system.

This is an extraordinary panel, and there is so much complexity here that I am going to join Senator Crapo in sending you some specific questions about solutions.

Without transparency, the market cannot work.

Well, thank you all for the good work you've done modernizing the background check system.

There's really a clash between those values, our democracy with the public's right to know, the need to receive information upon which to judge the performance of public officials.

I don't believe any more legislation will move on the issue in the next two years.

I want to just say the one thing I would congratulate the Biden administration on is their commitment to implement the bipartisan Safer Communities Act.

But we made the single largest investment in community-based mental health care in American history.

I would like to ask if you will be willing to work with us--particularly the chairman, the ranking member, who obviously will set the agenda--in working on all of these issues as part of the same problem.

I think the Biden administration has completely dropped the ball when it comes to the border, and unfortunately, we have seen all of these deaths.

Do you believe we have a public health crisis when it comes to these overdose deaths?