"They are literally the backbone of the country. That's where everything begins and everything ends."
"I represent a majority rural district, a lot of agriculture and a lot of livestock and ranching."
"Today Democrats are attacking the farmers and ranchers calling them the great polluters of the world."
"Mr. Biden's so-called American Families Plan would have done even more damage to the American farmers and ranchers."
"It's a dangerous game when D.C. politicians think they know better than the folks that are actually putting their hands in the dirt."
"the Mexican drug cartels... are controlling our Southern border, not our Federal Government."
"a porous border is a dangerous border, and it is an immoral border."
"And we're here harassing the NFL, and I might add, engaging in a partisan bizarre witch hunt of an NFL team and trespassing without just cause into the internal affairs of a privately held entity when..."
"this unchecked narcotics trafficking has fueled an opioid crisis, which is directly responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Americans."
"we're here suffering inflation at a 41-year high, 8.6 percent; gasoline at $5 a gallon, highest it's ever been in our history."
"We have a southern border wide open, more porous than in 250 years, and the drug cartels are making record profits."