It is important that we continue to hold them accountable to standards.

if they build the conditions, our businesses will come

I would urge you to rethink whether eliminating the Anti-Heroin Task Force grant program is really in the interest of what we are all trying to accomplish.

I am troubled because, for this subcommittee, it is incredibly unusual to hold a hearing with the Deputy Attorney General when there is a sitting Attorney General.

You are not the witness we were supposed to hear from today.

While it may not seem like a lot of money, in New Hampshire, that is a lot of money.

At this point, have you seen any evidence of good cause for firing Special Counsel Mueller?

losing access to family planning services will result in 2 million more unsafe abortions, 12,000 maternal deaths, and 6 million more unintended pregnancies.

I just disagree with your decisions in a couple of areas. One is the elimination of the COPS Anti-Heroin Task Force grant program.

It was looking at that successful model that Senator Leahy and I tried to direct some support to local law enforcement.

I am troubled by the fact that, while the administration's hiring freeze was lifted in April, the Department of Justice has been under a self-imposed hiring freeze since mid-February.

Well, Mr. Chairman, I'm certainly not comfortable with that kind of impact on women's health worldwide.

They are asking for a $1.3 billion rescission from the Crime Victims Fund.

I'm disappointed that to date this Committee has not received any information about the Department's internal thinking on a potential reorganization with Congress.

I very much appreciate the statements that you made here this morning about your commitment to addressing the heroin and opioid epidemic.

The 2018 budget proposal would reduce a billion dollars from the PEPFAR program.

I am certainly glad to hear that.

Have you given the Special Counsel full independence from the Justice Department to conduct this investigation?