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I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart.

What we have done to the Kurds, we'll stand as a blood stain in the annals of American history. Was there more chance for diplomacy? Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America…

By all appearances the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest it is anything other politically motivated.

I mean, if you could use the term, there should be bipartisan butt hurt here.

Look, oversight is the responsibility of Congress, and it is good. And when it is bipartisan it can yield good results.

When Secretary Bernhardt took over as Acting Secretary, the Department produced for this Committee over 100,000 pages of information from 22 different oversight requests.

However, our Department, under the Trump administration has produced 12,000 documents that are over 100,000 pages.

The number of Members who are here is heartening.

Oversight is the responsibility of Congress, and it is good. And when it is bipartisan it can yield good results.

If the president asked or pressured Ukraine's president to investigate his political rival either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out.

We cannot have the rule of law and human rights and the struggle for freedom with the actions that we see that are undermining the very nature of that system in Hong Kong today.

Today marks a significant day in United States history. It was 232 years ago on this very day that our forefathers signed the United States Constitution.

I am going to end with the final conclusion, again, that it is a redundancy because it is already being done. Why don't you just mandate that everything we are doing in every other department be done at the same time? It would have the…

I don't want to try to be snarky on these kinds of amendments, but it is already being done. It is a nice concept. It was stopped, but it has also started again. So this calls for a study to continue and resume. They have already done it…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Utah is recognized for 5 minutes.

Woman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Johnson).

Once again, same thing: It is superfluous. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Rouda). The amendment was agreed to.