Ron DeSantis

But it has been over 3.5 years since the VA was first notified of this potential to be vacating. So why hasn't the VA found a site in that intervening period?

It's frustrating that we're here where these delays are really a matter of course. And that's just unacceptable.

This situation is not supporting the services that our veterans need in my district, and it's not showing good stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

This is a really, really frustrating hearing and, obviously, a colossal failure.

It is really just cronyism, where you have a corrupt regime and there is a profit arrangement with a private entity.

It is not only hypocritical; imagine if the roles were reversed. This is not who we are.

It is puzzling to me dealing with the Cuba issue.

We are ignoring this basic building block of property rights.

If DHS is then going to release people who have been proven to be a danger to society into the public, well, then that leaves more Americans to be victimized by, in some cases, very violent crimes.

The problem, though, is, is if they're going and they're being convicted and then ICE knows that they're not here legally, and we know they're convicts, and yet they still get released into society.

A criminal conviction for, say, aggravated assault, that's not looking into the future, that's looking into the past.

To me, that's a major failure. Because if I were somebody whose family member was victimized by a crime, I would want to know: Well, wait a minute. You guys should have known.

So when that is not followed, what happens? Who is held accountable? Does anyone lose their job?

On November 20, 2014, just 2 weeks after the 2014 midterm elections, President Obama made far-reaching unilateral changes to our Nation's immigration policy.

That's a lot of families who have lost loved ones, and they can look at ICE and say: Look. Had you just done your job better, maybe my family member would be here today.

I think, going to have a chilling effect on people wanting to get involved if we don't get a handle on this.

The fact that this system was hacked and we didn't even know about it for a long time, that is really, really troubling.

So given that the consequences are potentially very dire, but also given that, I think, as all the witnesses have said, there are certainly things we could do very easily, why haven't we done enough, in your opinion?

Their best bet to do the most damage would be to try to launch it over the country and explode it and create an EMP.

I think this is something that is a concern to, I know, the chairman and, certainly, to me.

People who are injured deserve to have their own class actions.

I introduced the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act.

And that obviously will be passed on to consumers, and it is going to make what they buy more expensive. There is just no way around that, right?

Absolutely, and when you don't have ex ante rules, I think it really stunts the ability of people to dedicate capital.

Look, we are going to be the bad guy no matter what with Maduro.