My concerns that I want to talk to you about today is the impact on the women of the world... with some of the current action or inaction of the State Department.

And my concern is that there seems to be an obsession on the Republican side and our President with abortion.

I want to be assured that this bureau is going to be able to access all of those areas.

I had to choke a little bit when you called our governor a great governor.

The United States in my opinion recklessly intervened in Libya in 2011.

I wouldn't say that the United States is at fault of this, but we destroyed the regime.

Libya turned into a failed state. Another failure in American foreign policy to topple a regime and then let it go into disarray.

So given your extensive history of suing the Agency you now oversee and the vast amounts of money you have raised from the fossil fuel industry, offering to recuse yourself from only active cases and only cases from where Oklahoma, itself, is a party is grossly inadequate.

clean water and clean air are vital to our economy in Florida.

How many times have you met with those companies?

So if you cannot do that you will cement your legacy as one who serves the powerful special interests and not the public interest.

On climate he has been a denier and that is a problem and that is going to cost us dearly in the State of Florida.

These groups also reportedly contributed money to you or your political action committees.

This bipartisan legislation to protect the special counsel, to ensure that the special counsel can do his job and can pursue ultimately the truth, wherever it takes him, has to be brought up in this committee--must be.

What separates the United States from oligarchies and despots around the world is the American commitment to the rule of law.

I want to commend your commitment to the independence of the FBI and to the rule of law.

We have sat here for almost 2 hours and have heard nary a word from my Republican colleagues about Russian interference in our election or about the efforts of the Mueller investigation to get to the bottom of it.

It means that powerful people do not get to write their own rules.