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

If the purpose of lower business taxes is to windfall to CEOs and shareholders stock buybacks and increase compensation, then I don't support that.

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

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

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.

Our ability to counter China requires us to show up; it requires us to show up in embassies; and it requires us to show up on the ground with money.

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.

Competing with China requires everyone on the field operating as a whole-of-Government, and working in a bipartisan way with Congress.

Just a few weeks ago we heard from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin about the horrors being carried out in his country by Russian forces.

We are glad Representative Cicilline introduced H.R. 698, the Assault Weapons Ban Act, which would ban the future manufacture and sale of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

The oceans have been estimated to be absorbing 14 zeta joules of heat every year, multiple Hiroshima level explosions worth of heat per second happening in the oceans.

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

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.

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.

States like mine that have passed common-sense gun safety laws like background checks, red-flag laws, and ghost gun and high-capacity magazine bans generally see lower levels of gun violence and officers killed on duty than States with…

We must continue to fight for common-sense gun safety laws so that neighborhoods are safe from gun violence and police officers are never outgunned.

Thank you very much for being here, Director.