Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for holding this hearing. I want to thank the panel of distinguished witnesses.

It is long past time to treat gun violence as the public health crisis that it is.

one of the few constants to the conflict has been the Assad regime's barbarous treatment of fellow Syrians with the active support and participation of Russia and Iran

The Republicans have fought for this for a long time.

The Republicans -- how did we get in this mess? ... They have had a long-term strategy to get one extremist after another onto the Supreme Court.

We need resources, not revolvers, in our schools.

The Assad regime repeatedly broke the century-old taboo against the use of chemical weapons.

It seeks to replace America's post-war pattern of development, a very brittle one focused on automobile traffic and single-family zoning, with a much more vital and socioeconomically rich pattern of multifamily development and streets…

As a former city councilor, I chaired the Transportation and Public Safety Committee and was a member of the Land Use Committee in my hometown.

We need to be fight, fight, fighting.

Every single life wrought by gun violence matters.

If someone shot and killed your child, you would not be sitting here wanting to hear about my constitutional right to own a gun.

The creation of a digital dollar is certainly a hefty responsibility.

I am also glad that over the course of this session, you have really cleared up that you agree that you require congressional authorization to issue a CBDC.

So no deal policies have not only failed to tighten the lid on Iran's nuclear program, it lifted them entirely.

I do not think it is politics when legislators, like ourselves, discuss ways to protect the people that we represent and the people of our country.

what is the current threat of nuclear annihilation? The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock measures how close humanity and the planet is to destruction. The answer is: 100 seconds. That is tied for the closest we have ever been…

President Trump blew up the Iran nuclear deal and then left a minefield to make it difficult for any successor to cleanly reenter, but President Biden knows that the alternative to diplomacy is far worse.