I urge you all to take off your partisan hats for a moment.

We need a package of rules and legislative changes so that responders to congressional inquiries cannot rely on phony privilege claims and delay tactics.

I do not see anything in here about the Government that is good.

I do not think the Government should be shut down, of this Nation, for a week, for a month, for a year, for an hour, for a second.

I am going to vote against anybody for a budget and management position who cannot repudiate the notion that shutting the Government down is a very, very bad thing.

It is better for the Government of the United States to be shut down.

You want to be at the Office of Management and Budget, but you will not tell me that shutdown is a bad thing.

it may be time for a 'good shutdown in September.'

I think any shutdown of the Government of the United States is a horrible thing.

It's so jarring to hear recent reports of White House officials... attempting to interfere.

Our constitutional obligation is to keep America and our citizens safe.

The President is not above the law.

I think it will be essential, Mr. Chairman, that that other individual, who has served our country as well with great distinction, has a chance to relay his version of those facts.

the American public deserves to get the answers to these questions.

The President himself say that he was thinking about the Russia investigation when he fired Director Comey.

If any of this is true, it would be an appalling and improper use of our intelligence professionals. An act, if true, that could erode the public's trust in our intelligence institutions.

I think, frankly--and I understand your commitment to the Administration--but that Senator King, Senator Heinrich and my questions deserve answers, and at some point the American public deserves full answers.

Because that is what the questions are being asked about, reports that nobody has laid to rest here, that the President of the United States has intervened directly in an ongoing FBI investigation.