Diana DeGette

Because of a policy put in place by this administration, unnecessary long-term harm may have been inflicted on thousands of children.

Part of the failure of this administration's tragic separation policy was not only its cruelty, but its incompetent implementation.

These are real kids. These are real families who were forcibly torn apart and they were kept apart by our Government.

Today we take a look at the Trump administration's ill-conceived and, frankly, shameful family separation policy that led to thousands of children being separated from their parents at the border.

We have inflicted additional trauma on each and every one of those children.

I have seen the cages. I have walked through the cages. I have seen the children crying.

We are not a nation that rips families apart, and we need to stop this for once and for all and get these kids back with their parents.

The bottom line is the administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border, and the chaos it unleashed, has left scars that will never heal.

As a nation, we are so much better than that.

To be clear, what happened to these children should never happen in this country.

Well, number one, we are the ones that pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord, not them.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. You know, I really want to thank you for having this hearing as your first hearing of this committee.

Do you all agree that climate change is real and that human activity contributes to it?

I really want to thank you for having this hearing as your first hearing of this committee.

I am asking you to please communicate to the Department that they do need to comply with this document request.

We've got to act to reauthorize this law before the 115th Congress ends.

Addressing the problem of rape and sexual assault is of critical importance.

I think it's the best subcommittee in the House, and I'm really happy that you got the opportunity to chair it.

I have a really wonderful district attorney, Beth McCann, who is working quite closely with all of our hospitals.

I mean, it's health and it is criminal justice, but if you do it correctly, then it's patient centered.

I think the other pieces are largely fairly easily fixable.

This needs to be reauthorized. This is kind of one of the mysteries of Congress to me, why we have haven't done it.

We need to reauthorize VAWA. It's very, very important to do. I've supported it every time. It's essential.

It's critical to protect people's health in the aftermath of an attack and to receive critical timely medical services that address the unique needs of each victim.

We need to make sure that postpartum, Medicaid doesn't stop within 60 days of delivering the baby.