"the State of Washington benefited from Mr. Heck's service for a number of years"
"I think, with that pressure in mind, I will just kind of start down that path."
"We want to move that bill. We want to mark that up, and we want to move it in a strong bipartisan way."
"I want to thank the Chairwoman for bringing this important hearing to Arizona."
"In March 2018, the OIG conducted an inspection at the request of Congressmen Pete Aguilar and Mark Takano related to a series of concerns regarding the environment of care."
"I, too, like my colleagues, applaud the residents of Florida for voting overwhelmingly in favor of restoring voting rights to individuals."
"Why undo that mandate that the voters have given, which they did on Friday?"
"Those irregularities are looking a lot like systemic voter suppression efforts."
"I hope you feel from us you are hearing that you don't just have the authority to come talk with us if you need additional budget dollars to carry out these inspections, but we hope you feel the oblig..."
"So when the department comes to us and asks for authority, and there are cases like this, where individuals who don't have a criminal record are detained it--it frustrates us."
"It was election fraud, and it was meant to skew the outcome of an election."
"What matters is, is every vote counted. That is what this Committee has the obligation to discuss."