Mr. Speaker, I am proud to support H.R. 241, the Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act, commonsense legislation that enables State and Federal regulators to better coordinate their examination activities. The bill allows for…

For reasons that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, the litigation is irrelevant to the statement of a fact.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I would like to thank my colleague Ayanna Pressley and Mr. DeSaulnier for your work also in organizing this hearing and a critically important issue at this time.

I would like to apologize to you on behalf of the United States of America for the dehumanizing policies that they are pursuing to--that are, frankly, targeting you and targeting many people in the United States.

I'd also like to apologize to you both for the behavior of some of the members of this committee where they are speaking in profoundly dehumanizing terms to you, and you don't deserve that.

This is a cruel policy change, and this fits a pattern that we have been seeing over and over again before this committee of a culture and an of policies specifically almost animated by cruelty.

I think it sounds fair. I think it'd be good for us to come together and at least provide some certainty for the lives of these folks.

The Supreme Court has ruled several times that ongoing litigation is not valid grounds for resisting an answer to congressional questions.

the Supreme Court has determined it, that ongoing litigation is not grounds to resist an answer to a congressional inquiry.

I think it's important that we acknowledge here that we are getting open resistance that are citing illegitimate legal grounds.

there has been a lot of chaos caused by this policy change, and the administration, because they did not advise Congress ahead of time on how this would be enforced or what would happen, there are a lot of outstanding questions.

This is a threat to even the rule of law when it comes to U.S. immigration policy.

this policy will murder her.

Our job is ordered by the Constitution of the United States to conduct oversight on these conditions that will kill people.

The Supreme Court has ruled that ongoing litigation is not a reason to resist that answer.

I think that we should consider discussing a subpoena to get this information if we don't get it as requested.

I'd like to apologize to you both for the behavior of some of the members of this committee.

Is targeting and changing policy to specifically target people with life-threatening diseases for deportation essentially killing them through deportation? Would you characterize that as cruel?