It is vitally important that our efforts be conducted openly, without prejudice, with no other agenda other than arriving at the truth regardless of our politics.

It is the responsibility of this Committee to pursue the truth and report it to the American people.

You do not undertake an impeachment inquiry lightly. This has profound implications for the future of this country and our ability to govern ourselves.

When you cannot pound the table, I guess some of my Democratic colleagues choose to pound the witnesses. That was inexcusable.

In addition to that, the names of 350,861 employees were also redacted, which I think causes a serious problem in terms of oversight.

One of the things that concerns me, Mr. Chairman, about where we are on this issue is President Biden issued a declaration saying that the Federal workforce would return to office.

I think, in my opinion, is a threat to representative government because nobody elected these people to do this.

I believe it is the largest U.S. reserves of cobalt, which is absolutely critical to the Democrat agenda for completely restructuring our power grid and going to all renewables, which will be an economic and national security disaster…

I think if we want to talk success and dealing with fentanyl, ... that is not exactly success by anyone's definition.

I think that the cartels ought to be classified as non-state adversaries.

I think we are going to have to reevaluate how we address this, and it needs to be a bipartisan effort.

I want to welcome the whistleblowers and thank you for your courage, but more than that, for your fidelity to your duty to faithfully enforce the laws of the United States.

we are either going to pay for this in dollars or we will pay for it in blood.

This is not an attack on project labor agreements. It just maintains a neutral status.

The construction industry is facing what has been described as a historic shortage of skilled workers.

we find ourselves in another hearing again in which our colleagues in the Biden administration are pushing dangerous socialist propaganda policies over people.

you guys are pushing policies that are literally going to derive--deprive people of their rights to choose whether they want to cook their food on a gas range top or drive a vehicle of their choice.

the average EV is going to be between 14 and 16 thousand dollars more expensive than its ICE counterpart

This is an assault on freedom, and it is dangerous.

the impact of the blow to the 175-pounder is going to be a good bit more severe than the other way around

You people are so beholden to an agenda that you would literally tell families around the country they can't even use a gas range top.

I am so tired of listening to the propaganda coming in these hearings.

But you can't even get a mine permitted in the next decade under the--under current conditions.

But that is money--that work was funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars.

It will be 25 years minimum before we can catch up with China. That is how far ahead of us they are in battery production.