I think there is an alternative that we don't have to face all the problems because they are telling me we may have hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines we have to put in as we make this transition.

Mr. McKinley. I am just running short of time, obviously. I just want--it is a reality check to realize what we are about to do here in pursuing, because if we can keep our coal-fired, fossil-fuel-fired power plants, we are not going to…

I don't understand why we are exploring--advocating through the administration, advocating the abandonment of fossil fuels...

Mr. Chairman, that is West by God Virginia. Let me just continue on with this.

I am going to have to have 850 square miles of land committed to putting windmills on.

Our objective, all of our objective is to reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

I don't know how in the world we are going to get to that.

I am just curious about, as we pivot away from fossil fuels under this scenario, we have already had people testify for the American Action Forum and the IER, the Institute for Energy Research.

When President Trump developed a vaccine or called for a development of vaccine, it happened within 10 months.

Now, rather than using a diplomatic approach to solve this crisis, Vice President Harris has invoked politics, blaming the influx on everything from the Trump administration to climate change.

Anyone trying to solve this crisis involving unaccompanied minors without visiting the border is really like a doctor diagnosing a patient without examining them.

How do we separate--how do we make that determination? And how long do we wait until we determine this child does not belong to that adult?

While I do not agree with President Biden's immigration policy, I believe that we have an obligation to ensure the safety of children once they are here.

The difference between that administration and this administration was that the Trump administration separated those children from their parents--and some of those children still have not seen their parents to this day--and left us this…

I have never heard President Biden say that, and I can't imagine that anybody would urge folks, desperate folks, to send their children at great, great personal risk to the United States unaccompanied.

Fortunately, at a meeting with the Guatemala President, Giammattei, he stated that the Biden administration's policies were the ones to blame for this crisis and they were inviting migration, including unaccompanied minors, because of our…

I want to thank your agency, I want to thank your employees, I want to thank your volunteers, for striving mightily under very, very difficult situations every single day to make sure that these children who show up at our border are…

Do you think that Nancy Pelosi is following the science in continuing to keep the House shut down and extending proxy voting?

Are we going to continue this nonsense?

Mr. McKinley. And I thank you, Madam Chairman, and thank you for getting this panel together, because this is going to be an interesting discussion.

I think we are sending mixed signals. We elected officials, public statements, public--I think we are sending confusing and mixed signals out to the public.

Speaker Pelosi has said she is not going to let us go back into session until all the Members are vaccinated.

We are losing as much as 30 percent of the water. Thirty percent of the water that we treated.

These bills create open-ended programs that prevent future collection efforts for 5 years.

How long do you think it would be--what timeframe would be appropriate to make the repairs?