"This hearing is not about putting up guardrails, it is about ripping away a safety net."
"I really am concerned about the recent attacks on the ESA that we are seeing in the Congress."
"I would remind anybody here, or listening abroad that this is a hearing on the Russian Federation and its proxies."
"Instead, they are proposing a rule with dubious legal basis to provide taxpayer-funded Federal health benefits to individuals who have entered this country illegally."
"If we agree that Russia and their proxies are bad choices, I do not believe that we should allow it to be their only choice."
"But the American people have choice as well, and if communities around the world expect the American taxpayer to help, then there should be some sort of mutual benefit to include respect for the rule ..."
"I think ESA has been a critical tool. But I think it is important to recognize how we can further strengthen by doing some things ahead of time, like RAWA, which I want to work with all of my colleagu..."
"The purpose of this hearing is to analyze the strategic aims in Africa of the Russian Federation and its proxies."
"This hearing does not meet those standards because what powerful people are we holding to account here?"
"Simply put, Russia is a destabilizing force in Africa that aspires to create power vacuums and exploit African countries in order to weaken U.S. and western influence."
"African nations have choices, as we were just discussing South Africa, South Africans have choices, and we will always respect the sovereignty."
"The fallacy of these claims is clear, it is on display as they hold this forum just 1 week after bringing the Black Sea Grain Initiative to an end."
"We will never divorce our foreign policy from human rights."
"We have three co-equal branches of government, and we have to stop changing the definitions, and we have to follow the rules of law."
"That is our job, and that is what we are doing. CMS' own estimates show that Medicaid and CHIP state expenditures would increase by $40 million."
"If there is any individual that believes in stripping Medicaid from DACA recipients, I would like to know if they are willing to give the $6.6 billion that DACA recipients pay in Federal taxes back to..."
"I am curious on how we are going to pay for this. Last I checked, we have a major deficit in this country, and I have yet to hear any explanation of how we are paying with this."
"We have got to stop letting the agencies run with these. We have to follow the law."
