We have a very significant failure that is taking place here, a failure of global proportion.

My constituents expect that sort of accountability as well.

Our reputation as a nation, I think, has been put at risk as a result of the failed evacuation here.

September 11, 2001, is a date that is seared in the memories of those of us who lived through that day and experienced the trauma and the fear of that day. What has always struck me about that day and the days following, even standing here…

There must be accountability.

The lack of accountability here, the lack of accountability in this Administration is shocking to me.

Beyond the fact-finding mission, I plan to use these hearings to impress upon my Democratic colleagues the importance of the words that we use to describe our enemies, how we talk about them, how we frame their actions. Since day…

What we have witnessed here has been a failure of leadership.

Their blood is on your hands and this administration, sir. I call on you to resign.

That kills your credibility by saying, hey, we failed to predict that this would happen.

$85 billion, I would consider that material aid to a terrorist organization.

your credibility, I think, would be a lot greater if you would at least own something.

You had no plan, or a horrible plan, to get people into the gate.

Is the Taliban a terrorist organization?

a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom on the floor of the House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat, basically called the withdrawal--President Biden's withdrawal shameful.

Some of us must urge the use of restraint.

The Constitution won`t allow this power grab. And in the meantime, I will stand up for all Tennesseans.

I was of the unpopular opinion, along with the very lonely voice of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, opposing going to war in Afghanistan and even more so Iraq.