I was one of those who was opposed to our withdrawing from Afghanistan. I am not going to revisit that, but a lot of my concerns were around the rights of women and girls if Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban.

I think telescoping the timeframe to get that completed is very important.

If we have learned anything from our 20-year war in Afghanistan, it is that it is easier to get into a war than to get out of one.

We must re-imagine a national security policy that prioritizes diplomacy and stops endless, undefined military engagements before they can begin.

I want to know where that outrage was when year after year for 10 years, starting with Senator McCain, I and others in the Senate tried to get more Special Immigrant Visa applicants through the process.

I just would hope the 200,000 is the goal.

Will you commit to supporting such a license, perhaps modeled on the general license OFAC issued for Ansarallah in Yemen prior to the designation revocation?

I am angered that after 20 years of American investment in an Afghan security force dramatically larger than the Taliban, dramatically better equipped than the Taliban, that security force just melted away and failed.

There is one relationship that really has always troubled me a great deal, certainly over the last couple of decades, and that is our relationship with Pakistan.

I want to thank all of your people for the work they have done. They stood side by side with our military, risking their lives in helping people evacuate in the most dangerous situation.

Congressman Keating worked with our folks on the ground to help a Voice of America reporter and his family get to the airport.

Evictions are disruptive and violent. These are violent events which destabilize families.

Thanks to Chairwoman Waters, we are finally getting back into the business of affordable housing.

Forget going into these school boards and bringing data. You go into school boards to remove them.

This policy failure has ended the lives of more than 10,000 Americans.

I know firsthand the fear and the trauma that comes with an eviction notice on your door.

I am all in on public housing. Look, if we didn't have public housing, my family and I would have been homeless.

I have heard a number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talk about the unconstitutionality of President Biden's actions.