Jason Crow

It is not the role of this committee to tell you all what to report and how to report it because that act alone would undermine the credibility, the veracity, and the effectiveness of that information.

The work you and your teams do, often in hostile and dangerous environments, is essential to supporting independent journalism, access to objective reporting, and amplifying American values abroad.

I have a great confidence in this administration to do that in the right and reasonable way.

We just ended our nation's longest war. We should not be pulling but it pulled into another one.

The president has the authority and the responsibility to protect U.S. service members and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.

The only pathway to peace will be if all of those groups have the right to live in security and dignity and safety.

For this community, these challenges that we are discussing today are tangible, lived reality.

We provide humanitarian aid for people in oppressive areas because helping them meet their basic needs... helps them resist.

We must stand against Iran and we must not allow them to obtain a nuclear weapon.

I stand with Israel and its right to defend itself and its goals to destroy the Hamas terrorist organization.

Is that the message we want to send? No. You can't say you are for our national security and also support this measure. More than anything else, this is a moral argument. I don't want to see yellow ribbons tied around trees, I don't want…

That statement, to be clear, was within the context of him applauding the work of the military and our troops and our soldiers.

Your families have made the greatest sacrifice that any family can make for this Nation and we owe you a debt of gratitude.

My friend from California, I will always accept an offer to meet with our families of the fallen. I served in Afghanistan, as you know, and some of my friends and people that I served with made the ultimate sacrifice, but this is not the…

It is wrong to say that your office, and the State Department, and folks that work with you and for you, have been nothing but transparent.

It's hard to pay your mortgage if your house is underwater.

Climate crisis is real; there is no doubt about that; my constituents know that.

I agree with the vast majority of it. I think we're 90 percent of the way there.

I believe it is a fight for democracy. I believe it is a fight for freedom.

I support the spirit of this. You know, you would be hard-pressed I think to find someone in Congress who has been as all-in as I have been in supporting Ukraine.

It is about recognizing our history, recognizing that all things have not been equal.

It shouldn't matter what you look like, that it shouldn't matter if you are bald or 5,8" or 5,9" or black or white.

When we do tap into our full strength and potential as a nation we are at our best.

This is a distraction, this is money that is not well spent.

I wish they were of the past, but they are not.