Shelley Moore Capito

I would hope that resources would be available to help our agricultural entities deal with this predator that is pretty sneaky and pretty tough to get.

I think sometimes the misconception that our farmers want to be in opposition of environmental stewardship is just a misplaced concept.

I think that ultimately, if those tools are going to be used, we need to make sure that we ensure that private property rights and privacy are taken into account.

I raised the point, even though it is difficult to get from point A to point B sometimes because of the mountains that we have, that we were violating that farmer's rights, and it just felt too intrusive to me.

It just struck me that the EPA, we found out later, had rented a small aircraft to surveil the small farms in the eastern portion of our States.

I think we share with all the witnesses, and really all of us on this Committee and in the Senate, that we realize how important our Nation's farmers and ranchers are, and we don't want to overburden with regulations.

Our voters went to the polls last October and passed a $1.5 billion infrastructure package that actually raised the gas tax in our state.

A lot of it was wasted. It was a wasted opportunity for our state and sort of embarrassing too.

I put together an Act called the GO Act, a Gigabyte Opportunity Act, which is trying to use the tax code to drive investment to these last areas.

I'm as frustrated, as I'm sure you all are, and everybody else is to try to get to that last, that last mile.

Two things, time and money. Well, you know, I get tired of hearing the same thing, time and money.

I think we worked with just about everybody on the panel, again, for echoing what many of my colleagues have said.

I know I have been in numerous meetings with you and others where those of us who represent rural areas really emphasize the difficulty of attracting that private capital.

We may have a bit of a different view on how this could roll out.

Senator Hassan mentioned the addictive quality of computer gaming on the young minds.

I think that completes our first round.

As somebody who represents a state with a lot of seniors, this obviously is very important.

Competition is the best protection for consumers and the strongest prescription for a healthy economy.

I particularly want to thank President Trump for nominating Christine Wilson as a nominee as FTC Commissioner.

I think the better the system gets and more reliable, the less frequently it needs to be tested.

We have a natural resource in my home state and region we would love to be selling our natural gas in this country.

New England does not seem to have the appetite to permit the pipeline.

I can count on one hand how many people have come in my office and said we will help pay for this.

I think one thing that was a great thing that we did in the last WRDA bill, I think it was the WRDA bill, when the revenue from diesel fuel went up and Congress increased that tax from 20 cents a gallon to 29 cents a gallon.

Well, I think you can look for us to be very aggressive on working to be more encouraging to you either regulatorily or through the legislation to make sure that we--