Hey, Michael Cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. She's about to learn a lot.

Absolutely not. It's witness testing. When people come before the Congress with an intent to perpetuate their continuous lies, we have an opportunity and I would say an obligation to test who those people lie to.

This is the reason I brought a minor child with me. She was my passport.

I appreciate and I take with all sincerity the concern my colleagues have about children being separated from their families once they reach the United States.

What do we think would happen in this country if we said we were only going to lock up 1,000 people, total, for murder? Well, probably, after the thousandth person was arrested and locked up, you would have a lot more murders, not less…

We all are entitled to our own opinions and views on how to address gun violence, but I don't believe that we are entitled to our own facts.

If we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border, and we would do it post haste.

I think that was a rather instructive moment for the committee, Mr. Chair, because as we gather here in Washington, there are a divergent series of views and inputs and thoughts.

I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. As we gather here on the floor, the gentleman from Texas and I would note that most Americans are working on a Wednesday afternoon at 3:20 eastern time. Most Americans are trying to advance…

Here we are, 2\1/2\ weeks away from a potential government shutdown. It is not 5 yet, and I am on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and there is functionally nobody here. I choose to address the body…

I have every confidence that during your leadership, this committee will be more engaging and transparent and robust in the discussion than we were during the 115th Congress.

I had hoped that at one of our initial meetings we would have been giving powers back to the States in the form of removing cannabis from the list of Schedule I drugs rather than taking powers from the States.