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Alejandro Mayorkas
@alejandromayorkas· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Among my top priorities is to ensure that our personnel can perform their critical missions, that they feel safe and secure at work, and that the fabric of our Department is not penetrated by hate or violent extremism.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

We promised then that we would find the perpetrators, that we would bring them to justice, and that we would do so in a way that honored the Constitution.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

The Department pursued White supremacists who sought to deny newly-freed slaves their rights under the Constitution.

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Alejandro Mayorkas
@alejandromayorkas· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Further, the Department will continue working closely with its partners to build greater public awareness of and resilience to disinformation.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Combatting domestic violent extremism and domestic terrorism has long been a core part of the Justice Department's mission.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Twenty-six years ago in 1995, the perpetrators of the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building sought to spark a revolution that would topple the Federal Government.

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Alejandro Mayorkas
@alejandromayorkas· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

As I have said before, the Department of Homeland Security is fundamentally a department of partnerships.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Combating domestic violent extremism and domestic terrorism has long been a core part of the Justice Department's mission.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

I've not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
@eleanorholmesnorton· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Madam Chair, it is long past time for Congress to give the D.C. Mayor control over the D.C. National Guard and to repeal the President's authority to Federalize the D.C. Police Department.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton
@eleanorholmesnorton· Democratic · DC· May 11, 2021

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I very much appreciate your holding this hearing so that we can bring out the role of the respective parties.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· May 10, 2021

I don’t think it’s big government to fix the ten bridges in this country, the most economically significant.

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Ron Klain
@ronklain· Democratic · DC· May 7, 2021

We have 10 million people who a year into this still don’t have jobs. We have in this country food lines that are miles long. It’s long past time for this country to step up and do what we need to do to help those people who are hurting.

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Alejandro Mayorkas
@alejandromayorkas· Democratic · DC· May 6, 2021

We must secure the Southwest Border by addressing the root causes of migration.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 6, 2021

What we see under the Biden Department of Justice and Merrick Garland is a very different approach more akin to the approach under Eric Holder and President Obama, that says police officers, police departments have to be held accountable…

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 6, 2021

It tells us John that there's a big pivot away from how the Justice Department was run under Donald Trump.

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Merrick Garland
@merrickgarland· Democratic · DC· May 6, 2021

This is a big step towards that commitment that the Department of Justice now the Attorney General made.

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