John Garamendi

The House Appropriations Committee will tomorrow take up the Homeland Security appropriation bill and cut the Coast Guard by over $1 billion so that a border wall can be built

I intend to have a grand fight here with the Appropriations Committee; it would be helpful.

Well, the latest tweets from the President: ``So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in Helsinki.'' Obviously, he is referring to Putin, because there are not many people in the United…

You have shined us on. You and your predecessors have shined this committee on for 8 years. And it is over, sir.

If you do not have a calendar for the 2018-2019 year, I will be happy to deliver one to your office.

I am going to be on you like a bad spell. And I can assure you that the California delegation will be there, also.

Mr. Kihuen, I don't want you to stop. I want you to stay strong. I want your voice to be heard. I want your experiences to be known. Eight years old, coming to America with your parents. In this room, there are very few who would share…

The gentleman speaks about the laws and about the potential, and every member of the Democratic Caucus has now signed on to be a coauthor of the legislation, Keep the Families Together Act. It would end immediately the separation of…

There is something incredibly immoral. I thank the gentleman for traveling to bring the reality back to the House of Representatives. It is really important, and I thank him very much for doing that. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from…

I thank the gentleman for his comments and would ask him a question. The gentleman said he visited one of the shelters, and there were babies, babies a few months old.

May I inquire how much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

May I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining.

It would be a serious error for me to try to sum up all that you said, but it seems to me that there are a couple of things here.

First I want to thank the panel, an extraordinary panel, and a wide variety of information.

We sense that there is a slowness, a reticence within the Coast Guard to adopt new techniques, new technologies, new equipment.

The chairman is working on a line of questioning that I think is really important here, and that is the adoption of new techniques and technology.

What is the legal authority, the precise legal authority, of the United States Government to engage in military action in response to the chemical weapons use by the Assad regime?

The reality is that the engines that are being--in some of these ships, are made overseas.

If there is no risk, then we are at serious--if there is no risk to Russia, then we are at serious risk.

Are you defending the Nation? And what can you do to make Russia understand that there is a risk...

The Departments both said it was an act of war.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Courtney, you raised a point that I was just going to slide by, and that is the opportunity I had over the weekend to spend several hours on the Connecticut, which I think is of interest to you.

It seems to me that something we ought to consider is the strategic tool to deter Russia.

And if he really wanted to get the best for the money, he would fund the Coast Guard.

I don't see the logic of that. I think that I don't see the logic of most of that budget, to be quite frank about it.