Mr. Chair, energy security is national security. Proposals like this make us less secure and hand another tool to Russia.

Why should my constituents be paying twice as much for their home heating fuel this winter?

Despite my Democratic colleagues' best efforts to convince people not to believe their lying eyes, criminals and drugs continue to pour across our border.

over the past year, I and many other Members of this Committee have written to you and Chair Nadler requesting that we have a hearing with Secretary Mayorkas, so that we can ask him directly about the border crisis that he created.

The operative word there is 'could,' and we hear 'could,' 'might,' 'shall,' because it is all based on models.

Yes, absolutely. They have not given us firm targets, there is no doubt about it.

I must note that the hearing continues the Immigration Subcommittee's steadfast refusal to acknowledge the southern border crisis that President Biden and Vice-President Harris created.

Every one of these persons I spoke with told me they were coming because of the invitation from President Biden and his immigration policies.

It is unfortunate that our United States Government now, as a result of the Biden Administration's actions, has become the largest human trafficking operation in the world.

Isn't this just a political effort to control people's lives, this doomsday, sky-is-falling rhetoric that we hear?

So, they have an out, is basically what you are saying.