To this day, I don't know what happened to that child, but I will live with that forever.

I think 911 dispatchers are critical to the first responder communities.

Certainly they deserve to be classified as anything other than taxi cab dispatchers. That is offensive to the nature of the work that they are doing every single day.

Any time we lose a life because we deny them medical health care is criminal.

So where are you looking at fulfilling the payouts that we may have to be responsible for?

Unfortunately, we have received very little support from this Administration at ensuring that we support CICIG for example in Guatemala, MACCIH in Honduras, and because of that, the rule of law continues to be ignored.

Someone who negotiates with someone who is trying to kill themselves, someone who negotiates with somebody who is holding someone hostage, I hardly would describe them as something equal to a secretary or a taxicab dispatcher.

Do you think that it is appropriate for OMB to ask agencies to make 9 percent cuts, on average, without being willing to do the same?

It was an incredibly irresponsible decision to keep that open.

In fiscal year 2019, NDA included an amendment which I authored requiring the State Department to provide Congress with a list of corrupt elected officials within the Northern Triangle. That list is almost a month overdue.

So you propose what is essentially flat funding in the budget request. Does that really demonstrate a commitment to fiscal discipline within the agency?