Speeches
National Flood Insurance Program
Jul 26, 2018
The National Flood Insurance Program is a national embarrassment, and everyone in this building knows it. It is fiscally unsustainable because it is structurally unsound.
And yet, here we are again, for the seventh time in six years, considering a so-called “straight” reauthorization. “Straight.”
Made in USA
Jul 18, 2018
When Americans see a “Made in USA” label on a product, it is often a source of pride. It represents the American virtues of entrepreneurialism and industriousness. It is a symbol of support for American manufacturing jobs and high-quality products. And it often spurs American consumers to buy that product.
Honoring the Founders Promise on Federal Lands
Jun 29, 2018
It was 170 years ago that Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers came to the Salt Lake Valley in search of religious freedom… and, finally, a land of their own in which to practice it.
It is easy to take for granted, or to forget. But so much of American history – and of human happiness – has depended on the ability of ordinary people to have a part of this earth they can call their own, “to dress it and keep it.”
Floor Speech on Rescissions Package
Jun 20, 2018
Over the next ten years, our national debt is set to balloon from $21.16 trillion today to more than $33.9 trillion in 2028.
American taxpayers are currently responsible for 77% of that national debt. And the percentage is projected to rise to almost 100% in that same period of time.
On top of that, with interest rates set to increase, the payments on the debt will also likely double over the next 10 years as a percentage of total economic output.
The Due Process Guarantee Act
Jun 12, 2018
Mr. President,
I would like to speak for a few minutes about a bipartisan amendment I have offered to the NDAA, the Due Process Guarantee Act.
Alexander Hamilton, writing in Federalist 84, called arbitrary imprisonment one of the “favorite and most formidable instruments” of tyrants.
