Eleanor Holmes Norton

Mass deportation of Temporary Protected Status recipients today would disrupt our country and theirs. More than 32,000 Salvadorans live in the District of Columbia metro area; and Salvadorans, at 200,000, are the largest group of TPS…

Why supplies aren't pre-positioned there, so that this kind of a dispute, which is predictable, about getting to the islands does not come up.

I will call preparation for the inevitable.

This is what real oversight is about.

It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It has been tried and tried and tried.

There have been reports of really vitriol well beyond--

I'm not sure how the IRS is going to know anything if we keep cutting their budget.

I wonder, before something really serious happens, whether or not there ought not be an investigation of what is a very unusual number of threats against Federal employees.

And, Mr. George, you found absolutely zero evidence of White House direction. Is that not correct?

Thank you very much, Mr. George. I appreciate that kind of initiative.

In that audit, that audit--and here I'm quoting from it directly--found ineffective management, allowed inappropriate criteria to be developed, resulted in substantial delays, and allowed unnecessary information requests to be issued.

I think it only fair to Mr. George to lay to rest notions that ran throughout this committee for a long time, the false narrative that the Obama White House had directed the IRS to target conservative groups for political reasons.

As a result of that audit, therefore, Mr. George, there is no evidence of political motivation, is there?

What I value so much, Mr. Chairman, is that you have opened up for us the notion of these task forces that we knew nothing about.

We're not questioning the legality of the task forces.

But Diane is right. Once--but it could have been done without an executive order, so that's one thing, so you would know it's going to be internal people.

I think that's an important point.

Well see, that's important. So how do they make recommendations without having--without being identified so that they could receive some input from the public?

Is there an objective way to do cost benefit analysis?

If you do not even know what sexual harassment is, how can you be protected against sexual harassment.

He certainly does, and he wants as much information as he can get.

The guidelines were no different in the long run to regulations because the Supreme Court in defining what was sexual harassment used the guidelines

I support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

If you want to encourage what Sound Transit did elsewhere, then I am very interested in discussion with you.

I am looking for a positive way to encourage people who want to invest in their own local infrastructure.