Somebody trying to manipulate the Department of Justice which is supposed to be the independent legal watchdog for our country is just appalling.

I thank the ranking member for yielding to me. I have heard from people today who voted ``yes'' on Mattis and now they are ``no;'' or they voted ``no'' on Mattis and now they are a ``yes.'' I guess that makes me a model of consistency…

this is just part and parcel of what Donald Trump was desperately trying to do, which was find any way he could to overturn the results of a fair and legal election in this country.

It’s just -- it’s in such plain evidence that you almost forget that it’s just incitement of the riot that happened and an attempt to stop the Democratic counting of this certified results.

The truth has got to come out. Truth does still matter. Facts still matter. Consistency matters.

It seems like a flip flop because it is a flip flop.

I am not going to play politics with this, nor should anybody play politics with this issue.

I think justice needs to be brought to the President and those involved.

You don't get a mob of thousands of people that believe this big lie, that believe that the election had been stolen, that believe these QAnon conspiracy theories, that doesn't happen in a couple of hours.

I hope together we are going to make some choices with this new administration to invest in the American people.

Accountability looks like a conviction in the United States Senate.

Democracy is a tough, tough business even when it's working well.

I cannot think of anything that would make a greater difference in the prospects of the next generation, and of this country's prospects, than cutting childhood poverty almost in half in the way that you have proposed in the Biden recovery…

It is abundantly clear that this president has no interest in ensuring the peaceful transfer of power.

I do not think anybody can take pride in this health-care system in America that costs twice as much as any other health-care system in the world.

I share the view that in the long term we need to figure out how to create a sustainable fiscal path for our country.

We had two wars in the Middle East that lasted for 20 years that cost us something like $5.6 trillion, all of which was borrowed, none of which was paid for.

I think we are very, very lucky that you are willing to do it, especially at this time.