Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I beg to differ. So let's talk about the Mobile Response Initiative that you are touting.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate it and thank you, Dr. Dillingham, for your answers. You have some work to do.

So there is funding, appropriated funding available to you, that you could be using immediately to open QACs with the census being right around the corner.

And did not recommend eliminating them.

Are you aware, according to the census' own audit, that many of these QACs were budgeted only enough for 15 hours of staff time per week, or were only open during hours when most people are at work?

I have it right here

So you are getting rid of these centers, where more people than the population of an entire state were counted?

When will you be responding?

But you just said you are not going to have QACs.

Will you commit today to immediately order an investigation into these allegations of abuse of migrant youth?

A 15-year-old boy was just reunited with his family... He went without a shower and toothbrush while he was detained for five days.

It's not punishment, it's abuse.

Yes. I will read you the statutory definition, because it specifically says: As used in this section, the term placement means the placement of an unaccompanied alien child in either a detention facility or an alternative to such a…

I want an answer. I want you to look into how many children have been detained by your agencies who don't meet the statutory definition of unaccompanied minor.

There are lots of specific allegations, and I am asking you today, because we have a pile of them...

Everybody calm down, please.

It is incredible that you became a teacher.

I can certainly empathize.

So our community has been through really a very similar trauma and we are dealing with the aftermath of students who also survived.

I represent the community directly adjacent to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

Then why won't you say you oppose privatizing the VA?

The direction that the Republican Party has been taking us in with the VA... pushing in that direction for more private market forces.

If the gentleman is willing to say that he is opposed to privatizing healthcare at the VA...

The patients represented by their organizations 'were often forced to delay or forego necessary healthcare,' which is simply unacceptable.

Mr. Roy just came out for privatizing the VA, which the overwhelming majority of our veterans absolutely oppose.