"for the first time in my life, I felt like an endangered species. No one should be made to feel that way."
"I think the Dobbs decision was a disaster, both in terms of the human consequences of it, but also the radical nature of undoing not just 50 years of Roe v. Wade, but a hundred years of 14th Amendment..."
"I think it's just outrageous that we're making people do that."
"this is a hearing that is about how abortion bans have created a health care nightmare."
"But Virginia has basically done that, and that has put Virginia in an unusual position because we're the last state in the South that really still provides women and all the rights that Roe guaranteed..."
"In 2031, or roughly seven years from now, it is predicted that health care spending will reach $7 trillion on an annual basis, or about 20 percent of GDP."
"The President wants to take it to $50 trillion in the next ten years if his budget were to be enacted, and that is without any additional emergency supplemental spending."
"I think it is totally superfluous to the debate we are supposed to be having."
"I object."
"The death of Bryan Malinowski is a tragedy, but unfortunately, it is not a surprise, given the cavalier attitude of the ATF over the years."
"The solution isn't to abolish the agency."
"If we abolish it would that make it easier for criminal cartels to traffic firearms in this country?"
"if we did that it's your testimony--I don't want to put words in your mouth--that it would actually make Americans less safe"
"So stipulated, but I am sort of making a different point."
"it is not a deep state bureaucracy that thwarted, for example, the ill-advised plan to abolish your Agency and to fold it into GSA."
"The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants."
"Look, our Constitution put in place a series of checks and balances, and we elect a President to faithfully execute the laws."
"that was Members of Congress working on that."
