Ted Lieu

What these facts show is we don't have a two-tiered system of justice. We have one Department of Justice that goes after criminals regardless of party ideology.

One Member on this Committee from Arizona wrote that the FBI 'should be defunded and dismantled.'

It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals. Donald Trump brought that on himself.

Ultimately, the people most hurt by some ill-conceived effort to defund our agency, the people most hurt are the American people that live in every district represented on this Committee.

Today we learned that it wasn't just Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court who accepted lavish gifts from a conservative billionaire and didn't disclose it, violating ethical rules. We learned that Justice Samuel Alito also accepted lavish…

The United States must show that these issues are a priority and that means it would have to come from the highest level.

We identified 133 UNRWA teachers and staff who were found to promote and violence, antisemitic hate and violence, on social media.

We are paying for it. I am a Canadian citizen. I live in Switzerland. All of our Western countries are paying for it.

Generalized large language models are incredibly expensive to create and to operate.

The Chair of this Committee ignored a bipartisan Congressional subpoena. The precedent set by this Chair has damaged the ability of Congressional Committees to get information from witnesses and damaged the rule of law.

The bombshell revelation that U.S. officials have information that suggests Trump associates may have colluded with the Russians means we must pause the entire Trump agenda. We may have an illegitimate President of the United States…

For the first 15 months, Ukraine has fought valiantly and courageously in defense of their freedom against illegal Russian aggression.

The Department of Justice found that the Russians interfered in our elections in a 'sweeping and systematic manner.'

It is not enough simply to support the Ukrainians, so that they do not lose.

Thank goodness the FBI did, because multiple Trump associates who committed crimes were held accountable.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank you and the ranking member for holding this important markup today.

The more that you try to spin the facts and not answer my questions, you sound like the latter.

I believe the fastest way to achieve peace is to convince Vladimir Putin that he cannot win militarily in Ukraine.

It would have been a dereliction of duty for the FBI to have just sat on their hands and done nothing with the information that they had, isn't that right?

I think some other employee groups within the State Department are concerned that this is sort of a backdoor way to simply implement assignment restrictions.

I commend Secretary Blinken for eliminating all assignment restrictions on an ongoing forward basis.

What is happening throughout the country and happening even at this Committee's oversight, diversity, equity, inclusion work. What is happening, it is becoming wrongfully politicized.

Data continues to show that African Americans and Americans of Hispanic origin continue to be severely underrepresented at the senior levels of the Foreign Service.

I assume we do, but I will take the question back.

The State Department has had and continues to have certain policies that disproportionately and negatively impact minorities.