It's very important that we cut levels down to where they should be, but it's also important to keep the best and most productive people.

It’s time to stop this madness.

We can achieve what we need to do by program integrity to make the program stronger and better.

The alternative to Mr. Trump cannot be a defense of institutions as they are.

I hope that my home state of California can show the rest of the country what is possible by fully abolishing its death penalty.

This system is broken.

That was a very important thing to get rid of.

I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.

I would say 'yes get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.'

Not about getting rid of foreign aid, but that reforming the United States’ international aid programming could be necessary.

This hearing is specifically about examining the need for reform--under either a Republican or a Democrat SEC Chair.

The SEC's aggressive and burdensome regulatory approach reveals the urgent need for sensible reforms.

We have a serious gun violence problem in our country and I hope my colleagues will work together to pass common-sense reforms.

America has to lead in strengthening and reforming the WTO to address the challenges of the 21st century.

This bill will fix that deadly mistake.

I believe that changing the structure of the DOL VETs office in the manner proposed could result in much more harm than good.

This is not an argument. We have 9 million veterans enrolled in this system, and I am trying to have a constructive conversation about how we move forward.

I hope to eventually work on broad, large-scale reforms to the program.