Cathy McMorris Rodgers

That requires a broad, comprehensive bill that will address all Americans' data and put even stronger guardrails around our kids.

Data brokers' and Big Tech's day of operating in the dark should be over.

Right now, there are no robust protections. Americans have no say over whether and where their personal data is sold and shared.

We need a national data privacy standard that changes the status quo regarding people's data.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, COPPA, is wholly outdated.

In order for us to fulfill our Article I responsibilities of oversight and exercising the power of the purse...

I am very much a fiscal conservative.

It takes a staff to do the follow up and to really understanding the details and be able to ask the questions and make sure that we are holding them accountable.

We are talking half a trillion dollars that we have identified of new spending within this committee's jurisdiction.

You believe that is money well spent to educate the Members of Congress both on the Republican side and the Democratic side?

We were able to go down to the Rio Grande River after the hearing late at night and be able to see the activity at the river in real time.

Field hearings are extremely important. It makes all the difference to be able to go to a Member's district.

Thank you for this opportunity to testify in support of the Energy and Commerce Committee's funding request for the 118th Congress.

It is not simply just signing a check and letting it go out the window, and let these projects happen.

They have a First Amendment right to be able to speak to those things that affect their homes and their lives.

The legislation before us today expands the current Federal employee political activity limitations of the Hatch Act.

I've seen estimates that DEA thinks that they're able to catch about 5 to 10 percent of the fentanyl that's actually coming in to the United States of America.

We're here today to look for answers to a border crisis that is driving the flow of fentanyl--illicit fentanyl--that is pouring into our communities.

This is probably one of the safest communities I've ever been in, in the entire State of Texas.

Get Border Patrol back to what it's supposed to do, put the walls back up, secure some of that.

Until we end catch-and-release, which would allow our agents to actually do their jobs and patrol in the field, we will never come close to achieving a secure border.

I'm just stunned that there is so little discussion today... that is the case, and specifically with fentanyl.

President Biden has made the securing of our border impossible.

This field hearing today is nothing more than a political stunt targeted at the extreme elements of the Republican Party.

We should be focusing heavily on increasing access to prevention, treatment, and recovery for those struggling with substance abuse.