"Returning to the spoils system is a bad idea for America."
"So stipulated, but I am sort of making a different point."
"I was hearing the same message from folks, mine coal safely. Help us diversify and find other opportunities."
"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."
"How many Presidential management appointments are there in the Federal Government in a normal Presidential term?"
"the miner retiree health care plan was on the verge of going bust in 2017."
"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"
"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."
"If we abolish it would that make it easier for criminal cartels to traffic firearms in this country?"
"I am happy about this silica standard."
"The solution isn't to abolish the agency."
"I continue to believe we have to codify it or we are in trouble."
"An incredible global alliance of 50 different countries coming to Ukraine's defense, providing financing, imposing and enforcing sanctions."
"The greatest strength that you and our President have shown is in building our alliances in the Indo-Pacific."
"Unfortunately, and regrettably, right now there does not seem to be the willingness or the room inside the Israeli politic to make those commitments."
"This is a country that 4 years ago chopped to pieces an American resident journalist."
