Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Father Philip Salois, who delivered today's opening prayer. Father Phil is a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and now lives in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, a community that I am proud to…

The administration's reckless approach and carelessness in damaging our alliances, in my view, is making America less safe.

Congress, and in particular this committee, has a key oversight role to hold this administration to account.

It is alarming how this administration seems to conduct foreign policy in a values-free vacuum.

They seem to have little time for what have been real cornerstones of American foreign policy that you have written a lot about, democracy and human rights.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I rise in strong support of the rule and resolution to rescind the President's unnecessary and unconstitutional national emergency declaration. Mr. Speaker, having visited the southern…

It goes the other way. Sometimes it seems that our friends on the other side of the aisle think that the only people who are watching this conversation are fossil fuel industry lobbyists and CEOs and electioneers. So we are going through…

Madam President, I am honored to follow the distinguished ranking member on our Environment and Public Works Committee and one of the coauthors of the Waxman-Markey bill--the one significant piece of climate legislation that has passed a…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall) for yielding. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, in support of the underlying rule, but also in opposition to the action that is being proposed by my colleagues on the other side of the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this important hearing.

I am concerned about the slowdown with the security clearance process as well.

I have been frustrated that we haven't moved it along more quickly.

Your candor is very helpful and it helps us to understand the scope of the challenge and what we need to do to get this right.

We really do expect and anticipate better communication from the Department moving forward on this issue.

I think best practices that I have seen in private industry have been around training programs where you actually create test-phishing campaigns.

I share your concern about the clearance process.

no centralized system existed to identify, track, or connect families separated by DHS.

It is hard to put into words the practice of ripping innocent children, many of whom are arriving seeking protection and asylum from unspeakable violence, and ripping them from the arms of their parents.