I think both of them highlighted. One, you know, Colin Powell, the threat from outside the country the danger of from an adventurous Russia, the danger from the challenge posed by China. But from Sally Yates, the threat from within, the…

One thing I learned very early on in the Russia investigation. The threat to our democracy from outside the country, from hostile powers like Russia is now much less than the threat from within from a would-be autocrat named Donald Trump.

What Joe Biden has already done was very important, which is, Joe Biden has issued a statement saying, basically, hey, Russia, you better knock it off.

Well, it does. It falls into the basket of a President of the United States who will break any law, rule, abuse the power of his office, who will cheat, and no stratagem is beneath him.

the president's executive orders are messaging. They're not real help for Americans.

He cannot confront the Russians, no matter what. He will not stand up to Putin, for whatever reason, maybe for many reasons. He debases himself before Putin. And he's just utterly unwilling to defend our democracy.

It's been pulling teeth to get the intelligence community to say what they have. The first statement that they issued a couple of weeks ago, of course, was even more generic, refused to even acknowledge what we knew.

if Americans get any help out of what the president has done, it will be paltry, and way less than what people need to pay their bills, to stay in their homes, to put food on the table.

Most of what he has done is ineffectual, in that it doesn't do anything. That which would purport to do something is of dubious legality.

I thank the gentlewoman from Colorado for yielding. I rise in strong support of amendment 659, the Protecting America's Wilderness Act. This amendment includes the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act legislation I have been working…

I do think though, that it's very important that we expose the full wrongdoing of this administration, both the wrongdoing of the Attorney General as well as the President of the United States.

This is a very precarious situation for the rule of law in this country. We look more and more like an emerging democracy than we do, the strongest democracy in the globe.

I wish the members of the House and Senate, my colleagues in the GOP would realize that they are vulnerable to no American is safe when the Attorney General is not looking out for the interests of justice, but only looking out for the…

I think it's important to put the questions to the Attorney General, whether he answers them or answers them truthfully, to expose his lack of character, the American people.

I certainly would, you know, I've always said that he's a second most dangerous man in the country. And what he's done to that department that I served with for almost six years is so reprehensible and dangerous to the rule of law, because…

I am pleased we are providing additional funding for SBA relief programs, but I am deeply concerned that, without further programmatic changes and further assistance, many small businesses will be forced to close permanently, causing…

``My fellow citizens, let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one can foresee precisely what course it will take or what costs or casualties will be incurred. Many months of sacrifice and…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 278, nays 136, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 98] YEAS--278 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Allred Amodei…

I urge the committee to consider such a provision as it drafts a Water Resources Development Act of 2020.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I believe that Federal agencies should always strive to respect the desires of the local communities in which they work, particularly when using potentially harmful chemicals on public lands.

I am thrilled that the Corps included significant funding for the LA River project in its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2020.

This project--decades in the making--will restore the river's original natural beauty and revitalize over 700 acres of aquatic ecosystem.

I find myself optimistic coming out of this trial, which may be counterintuitive.

What Mitt Romney did in particular demonstrates that one person can change the course of history.