Mike Cloud

As the Article I branch, our job is to make the law. Your job is to execute the law.

You stopped Texas from buying border wall?

But your job should be to be moving us in the proper direction.

The Biden administration cannot find 42,577 children who are going to, quote, 'sponsors,' many of whom are connected to cartels.

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

Have you considered that a number of businesses actually like regulation because it creates an uncompetitive environment?

Just because we raise the budget doesn't make immediately there to be more firefighters.

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

It is zero. It is zero.

I would urge you to be very careful. A lot of States also regulate this on their own...

Would you work with me and maybe even perhaps support legislation like the DIVEST Act?

Are you familiar with The Wall Street Journal report that came out in--I think it was August of last year?

It is certainly a concern that is worth looking into.

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.

But isn't that a solution of the marketplace to--you know, if a business is having a problem finding workers, then it is behooves them to adjust their practices and how they address their own noncompetes.

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.