"I do not think there is a person here in this room, I do not think there is anyone watching on television these proceedings who does not want to find a way to end or at least diminish incidents of gun..."
"Whenever we enact laws, it is those people whose liberty is diminished."
"I think we have a real historic opportunity here to make some meaningful progress in areas where there is common sense."
"I was troubled by the issuance of those memoranda in some respects, and I remain troubled by their implementation."
"I will be introducing the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act which would remove the per country caps on employment-sponsored visas."
"I agree with you, there certainly are elements of that statement that enjoy broad bipartisan support."
"But my question is----"
"Thank you, Madam Secretary. My time has expired."
"we are the world's talent, that we want to be a country that makes stuff, invents things, exports to the world, and to do that we need to access the world's talent."
"One of the issues here is that when you look at Americans past, something like 30 percent of U.S. Nobel laureates were born in other countries."
"do you acknowledge that budget sequestration is current law?"
"Secretary Carter, why did you wait until after sequestration was scheduled to kick in to ask each defense component to report proposed actions and implementation plans?"