These early climate leadership actions from the President are encouraging, and I look forward to more to come.

He’s guilty as sin, but why not let the voters clean up this mess?

And it just shows the premeditation that for months, he`s lying about the election, saying he`s not going to accept the results if he doesn`t win or he won`t commit to accepting the results.

I do. And I don`t think it`s even close. And I say that as someone who thought his last presidential abuse was among the most serious in history. But I say that because the paramount concern of the Founders was that a president would seek to instill themselves in office permanently, that they would become president for life or king. And here, where the president incites violation against the capitol against the Constitution, because we talk about upholding and defending the Constitution, we`re not talking about the parchment, of course, we`re talking about what`s embodied in that Constitution, and than joint session of Congress was all about the peaceful transfer of power. That`s the ceremony where you literally are counting the electors. And by launching that mob at the capitol to interfere with that, by all the bogus, fraudulent claims of fraud, all the incitement against the vice president, he was seeking to defeat that constitutional process and in so doing, resulted in five people losing their lives. Hard to imagine a more serious violation of the Constitution, or something the Founders would have been more concerned about than that.

People are talking about today's cost without thinking about the cost of doing nothing.

Workers on the front line, they are putting themselves at risk so that we can move vital goods across our country.

I think it is fair to say that we are seeing that in many gateways, but more particularly in southern California.

I believe that this committee, and certainly Chairman DeFazio, has indicated we will be supportive of the need for vaccinations and testing for the maritime industry.

I think that answers the question, everything with regard to operations in how we have been impacted, PPEs, workforce retention, infrastructure repair, and so forth and so forth.

It is an incredibly important program. It was initiated based on its statements that it made by the Department of Defense warning of our almost total reliance on foreign vessels that supply the military.

I think we are going to enjoy working with you, and I think you are going to bring a certain amount of humor to this subcommittee.

If you`re not going to impeach and convict a president for doing that, it`s not clear to me why you even have that clause in the Constitution.

This has nothing to do with being vindictive. It has to do with deterrence. It has to do with our national security.

If you’re not going to impeach and convict a president for doing that, it’s not clear to me why you even have that clause in the Constitution.

Donald Trump, the commander in chief, incited an insurrection. It was an attack on our nation’s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the certified Electoral College results.

We have to act strongly and swiftly, and I hope all senators will be open to convicting.

Donald Trump incited an insurrection. It was an attack on our nation`s Capitol to stop Congress from accepting the certified Electoral College results. And a number of people died.

Future presidents need to know that they cannot attempt a coup to hold onto power, and the only time they`re going to try this is after they have lost an election.