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U.S. military action against Denmark in Greenland would not be appropriate.

You're seeing that we have a ridiculous surge of apparently 2,000 people not coordinating with us, that are for a show of cameras.

I don't think anybody's seriously considering that. And in the Congress, we're certainly not.

We've been warning about this for an entire year

While I am confident that the courts will strike down Trump's illegal power grab, Congress has a responsibility to assert its legislative authority and block this Executive Order

For so many of us here today, Section 2 is why we stand before you as members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Things are still being hashed out. There's always the details -- the so-called devil's in the details, or maybe the angel's in the details

After Republicans forced Jack Smith into a backroom interrogation and rejected our calls for an open public hearing, now they decide they want a public hearing with Jack Smith after all.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war — that is true — but it also vests the president of the United States with vast authorities as commander in chief.

I certainly was among those who, 12 months ago or six months ago, dismissed his talk of taking over Greenland as an intentional distraction.

This upcoming hearing is a win for truth-seeking Americans and yet another looming humiliation for Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, who depend on a daily diet of lies to keep their Administration afloat.

We are not at war. We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country.

The survivors and the public demand transparency and justice.

I'm not completely against deportations, but the way they're handling it is a real disgrace

Look, I can tell you, as speaker of the House, as the person who's in charge of defending Article I powers, I'm just going to insist to you that those have not been traversed in any way by what happened here.











