brown: senator daines from montana is recognized. sen. daines: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to express concern with my colleague's about the cfpb. we saw the same thing under the obama adventures and. under the obama cfpb, they pursued regulation by enforcement, choosing to go after countries without giving clarity on how to avoid engaging abusive behavior. the behavior of the cfpb has had a detrimental effect on businesses and has limited consumer choice and increased cost of credit across america and my home state of montana. i'm concerned and i fear that the cfpb is already reverting back to some of those practices of the obama era. the cfpb re-imposing some burdensome rules. director chopra, you said during your confirmation hearing that you would not prejudge a business based on an industry it is in. will you reaffirm that commitment to this committee today? dir. chopra: yes, we should never prejudge a law-abiding business, and i am happy to answer whatever you want. yes. sen. daines: ok, thank you. you also said you intend on focusing your oversight on large bus

daines: thank you for that answer. recent reports of shown tens of thousands, perhaps over 100,000 migrants been released in the interior to detach and release. do you support catch and release and do you think it's an effective system? mr. magnus: i appreciate the question and the challenge of course is we are dealing with a fundamentally broken system. it did not just become broken, it has been for many years and particularly over the last four plus years we've been challenged with not enough asylum officers, not enough immigration judges and long waits for court dates. these things take a toll. this is the truth. in multiple administrations. it will require congress to make a fix in this area. and i am very interested in working with the members of congress. i would like to work with you and others to see how we can best assure that the process works the way it's supposed to. sen. wyden: next to senator warren. senator warren: thank you, chief magnus, for being here today. it's good to be able to speak with you agai

manchin: now we have senator daines. sen. braun: we want to learn more about how legislation from across the business might hurt your business. we know the house version raises taxes on businesses. it places new royalties on your products and makes it harder for you to support jobs in your communities. mr. brown, if the house get their way and pass this sweeping anti-mining legislation, what would that mean to montana jobs you provide and your ability to mine and supply the united states with bentonite. mr. brown: i would like to highlight that we are a small business, and the president has said that any new tax won't impact small business. the taxes we are talking about, the significant increase in royalties would impact us tremendously. again, our margins are very thin. our ability to absorb an 8% royalty, however that is defined, and other fees that may come on top of that is going to be difficult. it's questionable whether we can pass that to our customers. i believe some of our customers would elect to source their mater

daines: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. daines: mr. president, first of all, i want to thank the senator from utah for his courtesy. thank you, senator lee. americans across the country, people around the world, and myself believe that in this room they know that president biden is failing at our southern border. that's not a secret. we've had months of record-shattering numbers of illegal immigrants crossing that southern border. we've had unfathombling amounts a of -- we've had unfathomable amounts of illegal drugs coming into our country. it's making its way across the southern border and into states like my home state of montana. many of you have probably heard me say that montana is a northern border state with a southern border crisis. well, that's true. the crisis at our southern border created by president biden is out of control, and we all know we must do something to change the status quo to protect our families and our communities. but what which i'