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it is insane to spend whatever it is, $60,000, $80,000 a year locking somebody up when for less money, we can try to educate them, give them the training they need to become productive citizens.

We are here today because of the Republican Party's unrelenting effort to get Donald Trump back into office, no matter the facts and no matter the law. For over 1 year, Judiciary Committee Republican colleagues have desperately sought…

It is my job, and it is all of our jobs, to represent constituents. I thought that is what we are all here for. I implore my Republican colleagues to stop putting the interests of only one man above the interests of Americans. The truth…

We are spending huge amounts of money locking people up in this country, and they leave prison without the skills they need to succeed in the civilian world.

it is insane to spend whatever it is, $60,000, $80,000 a year locking somebody up when for less money, we can try to educate them, give them the training they need to become productive citizens.

Last week President Biden signed an executive order to limit the number of asylum seekers that are allowed to enter the United States each day. The policy is far too little too late, but it highlights how House Republicans have…

We should get the hell out of the way, honestly.

let me be as clear as I can be. That is, the American people--whether they are Democrats, Republicans, or Independents--are sick and tired of paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. The American people are…

It's absurd that we're even having this conversation.

We're wasting time, once again, in this Committee.

Vermonters know climate change is real, and we are feeling it in all our downtowns because the water runs downward.

It sounds to me like that admonition is not being taken to heart with respect to Chair Gruenberg.

Let's be honest, Director Hsu. Chair Gruenberg does not embody the values of the FDIC.

I can't help but hear what I have heard from each of you today and not reflect back to January 20, 2021, when President Biden said that everyone is entitled to be treated with decency and dignity, and I agree with the President.

I grew up on a farm, and early in my life I learned from my grandmother that when the fox is in the hen house, you have to get it out.

Last week, President Biden signed an executive order to limit the number of asylum seekers that are allowed to enter the United States in one day. The number is 2,500. I have many concerns about the timing of this action and about the…

We are spending huge amounts of money locking people up in this country, and they leave prison without the skills they need to succeed in the civilian world.