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I think it is very unlikely that we are going to see the Trump Administration capable of bringing the Iranians to the table and negotiating a deal like that.

I want to urge every Member of Congress to undertake actions on the internet, in your own district, to try to reverse the message that was out there for two years that alarmed people.

The rationale given by my colleagues had been contrived and incongruent with what the record reviews

Indeed, it is against the interests of every member sitting up here to have their own residents not counted

I have faith in our uniformed military. I have faith in the American defense establishment's readiness and desire to adhere to the norms and the laws of war.

You do need off-ramps. It's very hard to see where they might be in this context.

It's hard to see how diplomacy can be retrieved at this point.

The killing of Soleimani will require from the Iranian perspective a clear and definitive retaliation. And that retaliation could take any number of forms.

I think we need to be prepared for that possibility. And as I say, it's no certainty, but what's happened in the last several days and even frankly in the last several months, has led us on a course of increasing escalation that I'm quite…

My words are my only remedy today, in spite of the upcoming D.C. statehood vote we expect to be successful. The people of the District of Columbia have no vote on impeachment or on any other matter on this floor now. I spoke on this floor…

If we--if this subcommittee doesn't do more than simply expose the problem but doesn't come forward with some remedies, then I am not sure what we are here for.

I think this subcommittee sees that something that should be done.

I begin to see that the committee has a due process challenge and that goes to structural issues beyond the individual who may be involved.

This is a very important hearing. I appreciate this hearing today.

I appreciate your allowing me to testify today, and I look forward to working with you to enact this bill.

Passage of my bill would allow students and researchers in the Nation's Capitol to take part in this important forestry program.

Excluding the District from the definition of state merely because it is not located in an area with a timber industry runs counter to the clear intent of the Act.

The District, whose residents pay the highest per capita Federal taxes in the United States, support farm and other programs, continue to be excluded.