Good morning. We will wait a minute to start, but i want to complement senator lee for bringing this idea up to me. I think we will learn a lot of perils ofut the the social media sites on the internet in general for children and what we can do to help and better inform parents. Well, he is on his way and i will give an Opening Statement here. We are going to the border friday. There is no intrigue about what we are trying to do. I have not been in a while, and i would like to go listen and learn, and hopefully after our business to the border, it will give us a better idea of what we can do legislatively to provide relief to those on the front lines of this chaotic situation on our southern border. I am hoping that we have a Bipartisan Group and we are not going there to blame anybody. At least im not. I am trying to find a solution, and i look forward to the trip. I know folks in texas are struggling with this problem and i look forward to learning from our friends in texas about wha
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