The interview today left as many questions unanswered as it did answered. In fact, it raised more questions than it answered.

we are here to stand this afternoon for close to 800,000 young men and women--10,000 of them are living in Connecticut--who have relied on a promise, not just any old promise but a promise from the United States of America. The promise to…

the principal e-mail, leading to the meeting, led Donald Trump Jr. to think he would receive incriminating evidence.

The Air Force One statement is very, very important about that June 9th meeting, and the CNN reporting today about Mueller asking questions of White House staff is highly significant.

I don't know anyone who's in favor of waste, fraud, and abuse.

I think it's important to realize that this program is paid for by communications consumers.

All of us are watching with horror and heartbreak the recovery in the Gulf Coast from Harvey...

If we're really trying to reach the hardest-to-reach people... we can't put an arbitrary, artificial limit.

I want to talk about an issue that is of grave concern to Connecticut and possibly all of the Northeast and the country, and it goes by name of pyrrhotite.

Thank you. I'm going to try to be as quick as possible.

the insurers have an obligation to do better

When one of your colleagues, Mr. McCarty was asked about this practice, he said he would release, quote, the hounds of hell on these insurers because, in effect, they were failing to pay benefits to beneficiaries, and that misconduct, in…

I want to commend Commissioner Kevin McCarty, of Florida, and your colleagues who have joined in the Task Force, as well as, of course, 60 Minutes for exposing this fraud.

I will take action to support the efforts in the courts more vigorously than we have before because, as I say, I have lost patience with FEMA, with other sources of recourse.

Insurance companies have stalled and delayed payment of claims citing obscure clauses in policies.

Are these exorbitant increases in premiums fair and justified, or are they simply a way for insurance companies to reduce their liability?

That will deprive them of adequate compensation for this kind of policy problem?

Insurance companies have used Social Security data to cut off annuity or retirement payments upon a policyholder's death.

It's a larger issue, it's the practice among insurers of changing policies.

I would call upon members of this panel to use your moral suasion with your industry so that all of them do the right thing here because I think it is a really important example of following moral and legal responsibility.

Insurers have been unwilling, they have been unwilling, to provide desperately needed assistance to these homeowners.

I hope that today's hearing is the beginning, not the end, of this inquiry.

I am out of patience. There have been lawsuits.

The State of Insurance Fraud Technology is a critical issue that we must address.

This is bipartisan cooperation at work before your eyes in real time.