I hope that you will address as quickly as possible their answers and their concerns.

Your obligation, according to what you told Congresswoman Noem, your obligation was to protect property, correct?

We are the ones suffering. We are hardworking Americans working paycheck to paycheck. Something like this can destroy us.

I will be issuing a subpoena to you before the close of this hearing...

This is the first time that access has been denied to open air malls, open air monuments.

A government that is big enough to give you something is big enough to take it away.

If you want efficiency, then you go to a dictatorship, but if you want to have freedom and liberty, you have our form of government.

This is worse than fiddling while Rome burns. This is fanning the flames while Rome burns.

I'm embarrassed by the committee process in this hearing, this sham of a hearing that we're having today.

the partisan rhetoric just doesn't help a whole lot with that.

I hope that all of us here really are here also because we want to ensure that these treasures are fully supported and receive the budgets and the attention that they deserve.

So how can you justify people from stopping at a rest stop or a turnout on a State highway?

Instead, it seems the other side wants to go to a one-party system of input by shutting us out...

Why are they doing this to the American people?

If the speaker doesn't want to play with other people's money, he'll now put a bill up that will get a bipartisan vote and pass quickly.

I'm pretty confident that a deal could get done by the deadline if Republicans don't put up procedural barriers to get it voted on and done -- to the president.

For the House Republicans to now come out and say they're going to do something contrary to what even their Senate Republican colleagues are discussing seems to be a reckless attempt to try to circumvent what the Senate is doing, which at…

Well, I would hope now that he's seen that this effort on the part of Republicans in the House to do an effort that's purely partisan, now that that's collapsed, that he would see that.