Mike Cloud

We need to recognize the national security risk of an open border. We have what is verging on a narco state on our southern border.

Today, we are here to talk about an opioid epidemic while the number-one killer in the United States among young people is fentanyl.

I am very much interested as the Chairman of the Energy Subcommittee on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

We must prohibit the Government, that is to say all of you, from further interfering in the acquisition by private citizens of their preferred medical care.

We keep saying we are having a national discussion on health care and the truth is over the last few years we haven't really had a national discussion on health care.

Those long wait times that everyone can read about for cancer screenings in Great Britain or Canada, that is scarcity made institutional.

Bad ideas don't get better just because you make them bigger. They get worse.

Obamacare, as you may know, has very little to do with actual insurance. It is essentially a giant scheme.

Scarcity doesn't go away under universal coverage or single-payer.

Putin's decision to bring this horrific tragedy upon the people of Ukraine is rightly to be condemned, and it is right at this moment in history that we do not fund this aggression by proxy through the purchase and importing of Russian…

I am here to let you know that the people of Texas stand ready. I represent the 27th District of Texas which includes a number of ports including the Port of Corpus Christi, our Nation's number one energy export port. Texans stand ready to…

how important is sound fiscal policy to us continuing to be a strong economy and a premier influence in the world?

we are seeing inflation at 40-year highs. Disproportionately, this affects lower middle class families and, you know, what is tragic about this, of course, is that it was predictable.

some estimates have said it is costing American families over $250 a month and that, of course, during this time where we are trying to rebuild our economy is very, very challenging.

So we are leading in the world.

What typically seems to have happened is that we take $10 out of an industry, and about $9 of that ends up in a bureaucratic regulatory investigator bundle, and about $1 of that might go back to the ag worker.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for being here to help us as we prep for the farm bill.

On one hand, I am very excited that we are having a hearing on the farm bill.

Each funding category is scored separately and does not compete against each other.

Would you be able to work with our office in seeing what we can do to relieve the burden?

I will be happy to work with you on that.

We led a letter from the Oversight and Reform Committee that I also serve on to the FSA inquiring about the status of reopening and other staffing issues.

I do find it odd that the same people who have advocated for trillions in wasteful spending over the last year are suddenly fiscal hawks when it comes to this.

the discussion seems a little bit like we are putting the cart before the horse.

we are in an unprecedented shift where everything that the American worker is working for has been shifting overseas.