Due to a family commitment, I was not present and therefore unable to vote on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Had I been present I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 135 and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 136. ____________________

We definitely appreciate the FBI's work on this. I mean, when our universities are coming up with cutting edge research and development and technologies, just to see them stolen by our adversaries.

I definitely agree. Our local police chiefs and sheriffs really support the Project Safe Neighborhoods, and it is a great program with a high return on investment for helping reduce gun and violent crime in our communities.

For a couple of years at the end of the Obama administration, violent crime in America started to tick up, that means more robberies, more murders, and more assaults.

That's very good to hear. We are working on legislation to try to make the EUL longer.

I am reintroducing the bipartisan AQUAA Act this year, to provide a clear path for permitting aquaculture in U.S. waters.

We need to rely more on our domestic fisheries than foreign imports.

Administrator Bridenstine, it is great to have you here today. I really enjoy hearing your knowledge on all subjects of NASA.

I think the people that they sent in lieu of the Secretary are sometimes best situated to answer our more direct questions.

This is why I think the American people are interested in having this conversation, and making sure the FBI is using their resources in the protection and security of America.

the American people want us to address the real physical and financial threats that exist in the real world.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today and your continued service to our great Nation.

As Americans, we are a Nation of laws. Our value system says that we should take care of people.

We must be clear. Though systematic challenges with detention conditions, due process and family screening protocols have been persistent over many years, the Trump administration is unique.

As a father and grandfather I am very concerned with how we treat children when they get to our border. We should not separate them from their parents.

If the children of God get to this border we have to clearly take care of them.

No other administration has carried out a policy that deliberately separates migrant families--in some instances by default--when they reach the border at the scale we have seen over the past 2 years.

Real oversight of this family separation policy and how DHS and CBP are currently treating asylum-seeking families and children is long overdue.