Joe Neguse

I am dumbfounded of how you could not answer that question with a simple no.

I suspect you have seen the letter from the OIG. In that same letter, I requested that the OIG investigate the retaliation that you outlined in your testimony.

I find it a bit odd, or perhaps absurd, for individuals to describe these hearings as political theater.

I suspect in many other cases.

Soap and toothbrushes are central to providing safe and sanitary conditions

The zero tolerance policy is still, quote 'an active memo.'

I believe that many in the country were shocked by the arguments that were made in front of the Ninth Circuit.

Of course you do not want your children to be kept in this type of detention.

Perhaps folks that are here at this side of the dais should stick to policy making and we should let the scientists stick to science.

I think your story underscores why Representative Tonko's legislation is so critically important.

We are certainly going to continue to call attention to your case in particular, and to try to do what we can to hold the folks at the Department of the Interior accountable.

The work of scientists in my district relies on the freedom to share scientific research in its entirety without political interference.

These topics merit consideration and attention by the committees of jurisdiction.

Isn't it true that Ms. Hicks told your office that she went multiple times to the President to, quote, urge him that they should be fully transparent about the June 9 meeting, end quote, but the President each time said no.

You did pose written questions to the President about his knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting.

Did Mr. Trump, Jr. or his counsel ever communicate to your office any intent to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination?

Did the President direct Ms. Hicks to say, quote, only that Trump Jr. took a brief meeting and it was about Russian adoption, end quote, because Trump Jr.

Despite knowing that to be untrue.

In my view, some of this is cultural.

I would not be received well if I said, well, I am going to simply change the processing time because we can't meet it.

This backlog, which I understand has existed for quite some time but has been exacerbated over the course of the last 2 fiscal years in particular, is not sustainable.

That policy facially would be construed as an anticompetitive one, correct?

This is no longer a policy maintained by Facebook.

I suspect you and I may have some disagreements on that front.

When a company owns four of the largest six entities measured by active users in the world in that industry, we have a word for that and that is monopoly, or at least monopoly power.