Mike Cloud

It seems to me, you know, this being a report on waste, fraud, and abuse, and the potential thereof, that every dollar we spend on interest is wasted.

But we need to do everything as a country now to deal with the COVID-19 healthcare crisis and to deal with our economy and get it back in a robust manner.

We've given them some advice on how it could be done. They've tried it before, but it hasn't worked.

I appreciate the gentleman for taking this moment to speak on this. I cannot imagine a more important topic for us right now in this Nation. Mr. Speaker, we are unique in history in that our Nation rests on the understanding that our…

Sure. You know my family, you know my wife. I have had those comments put on me that I somehow don't like Brown people and that I am somehow racist. They fail sometimes to look at my family photo. My wife is an immigrant. I didn't marry…

We, in Texas, experience this maybe in a way that much of the Nation doesn't.

They all say they need the fence.

Because if we don't complete what we started here a few years ago--and we have seen results, the fence is working--we are going to see more and more incentives for the migrants to come up here looking for a better life and more and more of…

The real broader picture and more correct picture is that this is a cartel-driven mechanism.

The new 30-foot fence, it saves taxpayers money because one border agent can patrol two linear miles of fence.

Let us help our border agents patrol it and let us stop the human trafficking crisis at the border, the drug trafficking, and so, you know, that would, obviously, stop at least with the topic of the day with child separation at the border…

We ought to be calling in Biden administration officials to find out what they are going to do here on the border.

We know there is a caravan coming up from Honduras right now and that we will see more issues with children being exploited by the cartels.

it's really put the United States on the forefront of being a world leader in energy production.

Energy is extremely important to where we are as a Nation right now.

I think it is important for us to keep in mind, let's not throw out the system that has brought the best innovation and has led to new cures that have helped so many people here and around the world.

It seems to me that oftentimes in Congress we go about trying to fix a problem before really stopping to ask what is broken about it.

It is also interesting to me that, you know, while we have H.R. 3 out there, which is, again, an attempt to kind of take over this from a government standpoint, we have another option out there, H.R. 19, which does address pay for delay…

Thank you. Appreciate you holding this hearing. This is, certainly, extremely important to the people we all represent and something we know we have needed to deal with for quite some time now, the extraordinary increase in drug pricing.

But as we have seen with the Obamacare and Affordable Care Act, the intentions don't necessarily turn into actual policy.

I share this concern very much, and I'm happy to be helpful to you and the Committee in trying to find ways to advance policies that would achieve a unique patient identifier.

I think we all acknowledge the difficulties of working in that region, a region where we in America probably have more of a centralized national identity of Afghanistan than those actually living in Afghanistan.

Who would have thought--who would have thought--that today we would be here discussing this topic. When I ran for office, when I stood in this room for the first time and took the oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution, I…

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I urge passage of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.