"I want to recognize that the agency has been asked to do a lot under extremely difficult circumstances."
"I hope you are right, Madam Secretary, that it is short-lived, but because of the amount of money that is in this pipeline that is going to go for years to come, I am afraid that this amount of Federa..."
"So we do know that restaurants are a critical pathway for so many immigrant communities."
"However, a whole lot of other folks that were not in the priority groups, the disadvantaged businesses and what have you, veterans, that people not in those groups are going to be on the outside looki..."
"shouldn't we maybe claw back some of that second tranche of money if, in fact, we find that it hasn't necessarily been as big a hardship as we thought it was at the time we passed that bill?"
"It is fundamental to our democracy."
"there is no secret that I oppose the Iran nuclear deal and supported the withdrawal from it"
"It is kind of hard to expect that they are going to return to full compliance when we see this bombardment that recently took place in Israel."
"As an appropriator, I will tell you I am deeply concerned about the upward trend of the net interest on our debt."
"The rule of law is the bedrock of American society."
"I hope this initiative isn't prioritizing funding for undocumented business owners over business owners living and working in America legally."