Diana DeGette

One of the reasons why we have had such devastating fires is previous forest management plans.

If we can keep climate change down below 2 degrees, that will help with the initial causes of the devastating forest fires.

We should probably fix that.

The very fact that we have a bipartisan panel here who all agree with the basic foundation of what we need to address is actually a big step forward for Congress.

I want to congratulate the Chair on having her very first hearing as a hearing on climate change, which is so important for our public lands and for our country.

We will take your children if you come into our country. We will take your children.

I hope that we, as a committee, as a Congress--not necessarily in this committee, but this Congress--will look at all of the issues that are going on in the immigration system and take care, do the right thing.

We intend to continue this investigation because many of the questions the Members have asked are questions you can't answer because these conversations took place above you.

It burdened discharge rate more than it benefitted safety.

Safe discharge and timely discharge have some friction between them.

Additional steps required to fingerprint all household members has had an impact on timely release of UAC without demonstrating benefit to the safety of children after they're released from ORR care.

It was Judge Sabraw, who I actually practiced law with a long time ago.

We, as a Congress, have a duty to provide support and resources to assist separated families.

Ripping terrified children from their parents' arms is not the policy of neighbors.

I am for a border wall because, according to a DHS special agent, we need to build the wall for the children.

I want to urge this committee and this Congress to not just focus on this issue of children at the border... but to also focus on the issue of what is a reality for many children that enter this country and enter the slave market.

I am wearing this 'X' because today is Human Slavery Awareness Day. Forty million people in this world are currently in the slave market, are currently enslaved.

I think that you agree that family separations inflicted lasting trauma on thousands of children and families.

This is a legal act, coming to this Nation seeking asylum. This isn't even an unlawful entry.

And that includes intense fear, helplessness, and vulnerability.

I support keeping families together. Last summer, I voted to ban family separation, and I strongly believe that children should not be separated from their parents, period.

I am disappointed he declined our request to testify.

Let there be no doubt that the decision by this administration to cruelly separate children from their parents is a stain on our country.

The bottom line is this: This administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border--and the unmitigated chaos that it unleashed--has likely left scars that may never heal.

It was heartbreaking. I'll never forget what I saw that day.