This impeachment hearing just distracts from the important work that DHS is doing to secure the border.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Congressman Huffman, for your support on this bill. That really means a lot to us.

These problems are not new. They will require serious policy making, not an impeachment vote that will do nothing but undermine our Constitutional system.

What other conclusion can the American people draw but that House Republicans don't actually want to fix the problem on our Southern Border?

this committee cannot proceed to any marker. I know that you have long planned in which you committed to the Speaker and to a Member of this committee behind closed doors without a full hearing of the merits of impeachment.

As Professor Pearlstein has explained today, there is no Constitutional basis for impeaching Secretary Mayorkas.

House Republicans are pursuing a partisan impeachment effort that will achieve nothing.

Unfortunately, Republicans are willing to damage the Constitution they claim to hold dear because they think it will benefit them politically.

I helped secure a few hundred acres in south Mobile County that has virgin timber on it, and what I want to do is bring those kids out of the inner city that don't get a chance to see a tree other than what is downtown, and teach them how…

You notified the guy last week, who, you know, has the third-largest agency in government that 'We want you to testify next week.'

Before we begin today's hearing, I want to address misinformation my Republican colleagues are spreading, falsely alleging that Secretary Mayorkas is refusing to testify before this committee.

Instead of wasting more time on a baseless impeachment, we should get back to the work of passing bills that will actually help solve problems.

There is no Constitutional basis for impeaching Secretary Mayorkas.

Democrats will continue to keep our focus throughout this sham impeachment on what our obligations are under the Constitution.

I am furnishing you with a demand for a Minority day hearing on this subject signed by all the Democratic Members of this committee.

Secretary Mayorkas is a public servant charged with enforcing the laws of the United States, which include drug interdiction at borders.

Senate Republicans and Democrats are working together, in a bipartisan manner and with the direct involvement of Secretary Mayorkas, to try to fix the issues raised here today.

Months ago, Chairman Green promised donors at a campaign event that he would bring an impeachment case against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.