"Under your leadership, it appears, our Border Patrol agents are the ones that are being handcuffed, while illegal aliens... are pouring into America."
"Do you agree with your expert Custom and Patrol Border Chief Raul Ortiz, who said before this committee last month that he disagreed with Biden's decision to shut down construction of that 250 miles o..."
"The CCP's extraordinary military buildup is certainly concerning."
"If we want to compete against China, it makes sense for us to provide robust job training benefits to workers negatively impacted by Chinese trade."
"In North Korea, we have a madman who would rather build an illegal nuclear arsenal than feed his starving people."
"What is most alarming is the increasingly provocative actions President Xi has taken in recent years."
"The Indo-Pacific is home to the greatest threat we have faced in generations."
"This includes passing legislation like the Leveling the Playing Field Act 2.0, introduced last Congress by Representative Sewell and Bill Johnson."
"In order for us to truly address the People's Republic of China's harmful tax, I mean trade policies, we need more than rhetoric. We need action."
"Ensuring our trade initiatives do not exploit workers globally and ensuring U.S. workers benefit from our country's trade initiatives must be at the forefront of policymakers' decisions."
"That is why it is so imperative for us to invest in missile defense and accelerate the next generation interceptor program."
"I am proud that the Biden Administration has taken decisive action."
"Forcing schools to allow biological teen males into girls' locker rooms is one of the greatest overreaches of the Federal Government."
"We've lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses and 70,000 of those... are attributed to fentanyl."
"It is without a doubt a crisis and I will say once again that I'm disappointed that I can't hear you say those words as well."
"Why did the department not request appropriate funds to provide CBP with modern, safer technology and advanced helicopters that they tell us they need at the rate of the fiscal year 2024 request?"
"When we talk to the Border Patrol agents and say do you need this and they said, oh, my God, do we need these because they have such a task in front of them."
"We owe it to the citizens of this nation. We owe it to the people who are being trafficked by these drug cartels to take back control."
