The reason is pretty clear: Short-barrel rifles can have the conceal-ability and maneuverability of a pistol but with the fire power and accuracy of a rifle.

I apologize for the manner, in which, you have been treated in this hearing, but I hope you understand they are not actually interested in having an answer from you.

I think suggesting that the real answer is to export our responsibility to do that to another country or to make asylum seeking so difficult because you cannot work and you must stay in Mexico that people will not apply for it is not the…

The asylum system of the United States was once described as the crown jewel of America's humanitarian effort.

I abhor the abuse of children. I have been at the border, and I have held unaccompanied children--desperately sent, because they come from desperate circumstances.

the right to asylum is fundamentally under threat in the United States, which is a sad thing to say, given this Nation's history.

Because it ignores the fundamental reality that our country has been made stronger, more vibrant, more dynamic, more powerful because of the arrival of immigrants, and refugees, and asylum seekers.

To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.

So, people are taking legally purchased pistols, adding these devices marketed as stabilizing braces but which are actually shoulder stocks and changing the character of the gun, transforming it into an unregistered short-barreled rifle.

So, Director, the ATF issued a rule on so-called stabilizing braces recently because it was clear that many of the items being manufactured and sold as stabilizing braces were really just being used to try to get around the National…

You can get these for other types of guns, too. For example, the AR-15?

You claim that renewable energy is always expensive.

They have completely lost their grip on reality, and are so subservient to fossil fuel overlords that they're willing to eliminate hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs.

If you care about deficits or economic growth, you have to care about climate change and its costs and risks.

And around here, there's an entire political party dedicated to protecting them as they pollute for free.

The things I can control or the things that the United States can control are its emissions.

And to quote you the cause of climate change is rising energy consumption using fossil fuels; correct?

To use the Chair's words, you know what Americans can't stand? You know what they hate about this town? They can't stand gun violence and they can't stand the fact that the Judiciary Committee has done nothing about it.