If the function of lowering business taxes is to reward and induce investment that create jobs, then I can get behind that.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.

Democracies consistently prove to be the most reliable geopolitical allies and trading partners for our country.

Can you just confirm that that money is in fact being appropriated to LGBTQI+ groups working on inclusive development programs around the world?

This is not a witch hunt. This is not a smear. This is not a harassment. This is to try to rescue the reputation of the Court from some very sordid facts that have been disclosed and proven.

I promise you Ranking Member Grassley, hearings in the future, on ways to save healthcare costs that don't require benefit cuts.

So the oceans are taking a beating far in excess of the actual heat value of fossil fuel, or result of fossil fuel emissions.

Unfortunately, we meet this morning in the shadow of the Republican Speaker's continuing threat to force a catastrophic U.S. default.

There's only one person in that room who was threatening to default on the credit of the United States.

We heard unchallenged testimony from Moody's Chief Economist that the MAGA plan would cost the American economy almost 800,000 jobs and increase the chance of a recession.

I think there is a persistent effort to limit our effort to support wildlife and hold off the great extinction to only what can be monetized.

The scale of this is really pretty staggering. The figure I use is zeta joules, the joule being the unit of measure of heat energy, zeta being a number that has 21 zeroes behind it.

So it is really a dramatic effect. And it is not just a fraction of our fossil fuel energy expenditure, it is a vast multiple.

I would argue that that speaks to the need for a Federal approach when it comes to gun safety legislation and not just a patchwork approach as we have had since the expiration of the assault weapons ban.

This emphasis on community policing, which you are right, Boston has been doing for decades, is a lesson well-learned.

In the last several years, 504 police officers were killed on duty in the United States, and of those, 456 officers were fatally shot with a gun.

I find it disturbing that some of our colleagues have taken to calling for Federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI and the ATF to be defunded.

To our law enforcement witnesses, thank you for your selfless service.