Mike Cloud

I am very concerned about human trafficking and slavery, and a number of the Green New Deal energy sources are mined with child labor in countries throughout Africa.

For the Federal Government to come in and decide that these are the particular values that we want to force reporting on, I think is very, very troubling.

To have climate regulations is something--it is a whole different thing, and you are comparing apples and oranges here.

Public opinion flows through the Representatives of Congress, and then we tell you what the public are thinking, and then you go and do it.

You may be trying to skew authority or find authorities in law somewhere to do it, but you do not have clear authority.

My point is, is it didn't pass. It wasn't taken up in the Senate.

And, of course, the job of the Executive Branch is to execute the laws, not create the laws.

There are some, for example, the COVID funding that was mentioned, it was $90 billion, I think, of funding.

You said, let's not hold the debt ceiling hostage to really draconian cuts that all help the wealthiest in this country.

We were the best at producing oil and gas. We are the best in what you would call green energy.

Biden has stated policy--he has said himself that he is trying to create a multipolar world.

We are trying to build a multipolar world.

I will just say I am coming to this conversation, this is my first hearing

Thank you, and welcome. I am new to the committee, so it is great to be here with you.

I would just add, it may not change what we are doing, but it would change the knowledge of what we are doing here in Congress. The fact that we continue to spend money without even knowing how much money we are spending, I think, is a…

What we are trying to do is make sure that the debt servicing cost is included into these studies we are getting. I have a bill, for example, to eventually do it with the Congressional Budget Office. We would like to see that, as well…

The information that we get to take into account, like when we are evaluating a bill and what we think the 10-year projected cost is, yes, typically it does not include the debt servicing cost.

Yes, it has been regular practice with CBO. I have been working to get this done for the CBO as well since I got here in Congress. It is the common practice among all of the entities that we look to for wisdom and advice and guidance on…

As far as the end of democracy, it returned the issues to the states where people can actually vote on it

Our founding documents guarantee us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We have a lot of work to do to return our economy to a thriving economy where families can flourish in all demographics.

What that will continue to do is to create the disparity that we see happening now between the rich and the poor.

The solution that's being presented today is more government intervention, which intervention by the government has only, in the past, worked to create.

Families are suffering because of the policies of this administration.

President Biden's flippant attitude toward the American people's suffering has been unacceptable.