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This suggests the administration is not prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens very well.

You suggested earlier that prosecutorial discretion allows the administration to prioritize removal of criminal aliens from the country.

That is disgraceful.

The Attorney General has been openly contemptuous of the oversight responsibilities of a co-equal branch of Government.

What are the outer limits of the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion, and why don't the President's actions exceed those boundaries?

Not only is this action contrary to our laws, it is a dangerous abuse of Executive authority.

The Department has also failed to hold another Government agency accountable: the Internal Revenue Service.

The Department's own Inspector General listed as one of its top management challenges 'Restoring Confidence in the Integrity, Fairness, and Accountability of the Department.'

Transparency, I believe, and, in fact, does bring accountability.

The public's business ought to be public.

I believe that Loretta Lynch will be an outstanding Attorney General.

Having the opportunity to get updates is very important.

I hope you will tell him that if we are going to get Trade Promotion Authority passed, he is going to have to work the telephones one-on-one with some Senators to get us to the 60-vote threshold.

For an overall agreement, whether it is manufacturing, services, or agriculture, it seems to be, at least from the part of the U.S. Senate, a good agriculture agreement tends to be the locomotive that brings along everything else

I think if we educate and explain to the American people what this really is, I think they could possibly support it, and I would hope the Congress of the United States would support it.

I have been a long-time advocate of whistleblower protection and so that appeal goes out.

I think there ought to be more careful, based on the statistics of whistleblowers losing so many cases.

It is not our tradition to vote people out of Committee just because of two speeches like yours, but it probably means that they are going to have a smooth ride.