This Committee needs to exercise its jurisdiction, exercise its jurisdiction over America's natural resources.

This is an embarrassment, Mr. Chairman. We have Americans all across the United States.

When you defund the police and enact policies to embolden criminals, it often is the minority communities that pay the most egregious price.

the Democrats want to relinquish Congress' constitutional power of the purse to the executive branch to establish debt levels.

I would strongly say that that is a bad idea.

The debt limit is a speed bump. It is designed to prompt the Congress to ask what it is doing wrong.

I have introduced legislation that does that.

These policies are driving terrible suffering across the land. Please stop it.

In the time that the Democrats controlled the Executive Branch, roughly 2 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended by Customs and Border Protection and, of these, roughly a million have been admitted into our country.

The Democrats managed to reverse that achievement in a matter of months.

The fact is the American people of all races, ethnicities, religions, and origins have suffered severely over the last year because of leftist policies that are driving the most alarming increase in crime and homelessness wherever they…

I think you really should acknowledge that there are more than five factors that cause the problems that we're dealing with.