"I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on these critical topics."
"I want to make it very clear that I'm not here to advocate for digital anything."
"A digital ID doesn't solve the problem."
"I don't know if any of you can answer this but I know that--you know, what percentage of the American public actually has a passport?"
"Come that day on 2025, we will have utter chaos at our airports because a great number of people will not have the identification that is required by TSA in order to board a plane."
"But if it's something that was mandated by Congress, I think that maybe it takes--it should take Congressional action to push it back."
"Did you agree with those changes?"
"The policies that have been implemented by this administration and your Department in particular, have led to this catastrophic failure of our immigration in the United States."
"The actual threat of the cartels that are not 7,000 miles away, they are 20 miles away, they are 5 miles away, on the other side of the border that are killing tens of thousands of Americans every yea..."
"Everyone seeks the same thing. It's freedom."
"That's a 500 percent increase in oil production, or actually sale, the selling of oil, Iranian oil."
"A lot of it's caused by this administration because they refuse to let American energy produce more oil and gas, which actually makes Iranian oil much more expensive, which gives them more money to do..."