"Since 2017, the Department has managed to spend over a half a billion dollars on developing a new personnel vetting system, NBIS, with little to show for it."
"To quote GAO's report, DOD's estimate is minimally accurate, minimally comprehensive, not credible, and minimally well-documented."
"We all know our children represent roughly 22 percent of our population, but 100 percent of our future."
"I appreciate that, and I appreciate your leadership and the fact that you've served as both a teacher and a paraprofessional, I think indicates your experience is significant."
"Mr. Chairman, thank you very much."
"As the Chair acknowledged, we didn't start at 10. We started nearly an hour late or just over an hour late because he and his Republican colleagues had prioritized a meeting with Donald Trump over a C..."
"It is deeply troubling that we are once again having a hearing to discuss the rise in antisemitism across our nation's college campuses."
"Part of the Republican playbook is to slash funding to government agencies and then cry foul when they cannot function properly."
"This great return on taxpayer investment is especially true when it comes to the IRS."
"the only way to truly deliver for the American people is to fully and properly invest in the programs meant to serve them."
"You've given us a lot to think about and to strategize about."
"We also know that in our state, we have state constitutional provision, which article 1, section 27 of the Constitution mandates that the people have a right to clean air, pure water, and the preserva..."
"I want to thank both you and Senator Braun for this opportunity to examine these issues."
"This thing should not fly because it is too dangerous."
"But for the sake of those who have died, and their families are sitting here behind you, that signed up, wanted to go support and defend their country and everything we believe in."
"There are a lot of concerns. And for the sake of we got to retire the 46, we cannot bring the 22 online before it is ready to go."
"So the SBA signed an agreement with the state of Michigan. We have finally received a copy of the MOU signed by a Jennifer Kim."
"Instead, this hearing appears driven by the desire to curry favor with the disgraced, impeached, indicted, and now convicted former President."
