I think one of the things that inhibits that is all the rhetoric, the slogans, the buzz words that I'd want to try and cut through a little bit.

There is no political party that has a monopoly on compassion.

The good news is the little baby did get admitted, and her surgery has been successful.

By the way, a real-world example of the effectiveness of fencing, read our report, the result of my trip to Israel right before Christmas, 143 miles of fence put up in 2 years, cost of about $2.9 million per mile, cut the illegal…

You know this is a commitment. You know the serious nature of the responsibility you are assuming.

In my example, I don't think too many neighbors would chip in the money to build that bridge when they realize they're not ever going to be able to use it or certainly not get priority on it.

I appreciate your good questions.

We want to enforce our laws. We want to keep this Nation safe.

So, again, let me go back to the refugee flow. To summarize I think what Dr. O'Neil is saying, so the Venezuelan Government is doing a pretty good job of keeping its citizens there, preventing them from leaving, and/or it just has not…

What would a significant flow be? I mean, what are you concerned about? Are you talking about hundreds of thousands? Tens of thousands?

How much worse could it get? At what point does that trigger a refugee flow?

The primary goal, I believe, of Federal policy should be to stop the flow or drastically reduce it.

We can't afford not to invest in infrastructure, we can't afford not to invest in resiliency.

I want to make sure you have the tools in your toolkit to keep this Nation safe.

Without objection again.

We're $20 trillion in debt. The projected deficit over the next 30 years is $103 trillion added on top of that.

We all agree that we need to invest money into infrastructure.

Look, we are out of money. We are $20 trillion in the hole.

We can be of some help stabilizing things, but it is not our responsibility to rebuild everybody's country.

Higher premium subsidies for a risk management program are very important to our members.

We have spent a lot of money over there, which goes back to a couple points.

In hindsight, would that have stabilized the situation? Would that have been enough U.S. troops to help stabilize--

We support exploring an incentives-based inventory management program.

As an avid outdoorsman, I place a high value on preserving the environment for future generations.

I first introduced legislation 2 years ago with Chairman Barrasso requiring the Department of the Interior to reissue the respective 2011 and 2012 delisting decisions for Great Lakes and Wyoming gray wolves.