"I can't wrap my brain around why you would be pleased with what has gone on in the last call it year to 18 months."
"In the last year, we have seen crime spikes like we have never seen before, 54 percent increase in shoplifting."
"We are asking for even more money for counterintelligence and cyber defense, but we are worried not only about China, but about Russia, and about its immediate threat to us, and about North Korea, and..."
"I just want to touch base. We are having a hard time in L.A. County right now."
"We have mistreated law enforcement over the last couple of years and we have disincentivized them to stay on the force."
"We need to reverse this cultural trend of defunding the police and, instead, defend the police and back our blue."
"He is behaving like the penguin from Gotham City almost in Batman movies. He is almost enabling the bad guys to get away."
"We need to enable our officers."
"I'm concerned and frankly I'm a little more concerned even after your testimony that we as a nation after our population has nearly doubled over the last 40 years, our organic production of energy to ..."
"We're seeing gasoline prices in California that has a lot of gasoline within its borders and underneath its ground, lots of oil reserves at $6 to $6.50 a gallon."
"These are massive problems in an inflationary period that is absolutely backbreaking to our constituents and frankly I think Americans around the country because we don't have the adequate resources a..."
"I haven't heard where we've made cuts. I haven't heard what programs have been sacrificed so that we can pay the programs that are needed or where synergies or efficiencies have been gained in the las..."