Unfortunately, there are some people who have been using the deaths of right whales to push a political agenda by falsely claiming that offshore wind development has some link to right whale deaths when the evidence clearly shows no such…

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

The Honorable Seth Magaziner, a Representative in Congress From the State of Rhode Island, and Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence:

Our goal should be to prevent crime.

We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us.

Here in New York, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have pursued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs that have pushed crime and…

If my Republican colleagues were serious about violent crime and sincere in their efforts to law enforcement, they would have joined us in that effort.

Unlike our Republican colleagues, Democrats have consistently advanced policies to make all our communities, including New York, safer places to live, to work, to worship, and to go to school.

They brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.

There is massive gun trafficking that ferries guns from those five Southern States with weak gun laws up I-95 to States like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

more than that, they brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.

Crime prevention is a serious topic, and it deserves serious discussion, but that's not what this hearing is about.

We know that the timing isn't a coincidence because, as soon as it became obvious that the Manhattan District Attorney was getting ready to charge Mr. Trump with crimes, Mr. Trump's lawyers sent a letter to the Chair telling him to use the…

One of the things I think that Congress has a responsibility to look at, although we don't have jurisdiction over State criminal prosecutions, obviously, or local prosecutions, what is the evidence with respect to the focus on exclusively…

If someone is a victim of a gun crime in New York City, dollars to doughnuts that gun was not originally purchased in New York State.

the problem is that you are using this as a political stunt unrelated to real concerns about public safety around this country.

The problem is that you are using this as a political stunt unrelated to real concerns about public safety around this country.