Ron DeSantis

They built terrorist tunnels. They purchased rockets.

What did Hamas do? Did they try to turn it into a Singapore on the Mediterranean? No.

They had a chance to govern themselves. They chose to elect Hamas.

The idea that somehow they just--they are fighting against occupation is what people will somehow say.

Hamas wants an Islamic caliphate, correct?

Our tax system is so bad here that they actually can go incorporate overseas.

I am concerned, too, if you look at how the healthcare has worked.

I would point out, before I recognize my friend from Pennsylvania, here we are in, say, February, March, saying you didn't know how many Lerner emails were out there; and, granted, you were not commissioner during this whole time, but we…

I think that we are running a very, very serious risk of walking into a bad deal here with the administration.

Historian Bernard Lewis... said that to people like Ali Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent.

Well, I appreciate that, but at this point they are laggards, is it fair to say that?

So is it an accurate statement to say that the White House performs worse than the agencies that comprise the Executive Branch in terms of the gender pay gap?

Are you comfortable that high Federal officials are talking about this, are conducting themselves in this way? Is that good or not?

So, you know, we have a duty on behalf of the American people to exercise oversight over the executive branch.

I don't think that the American people are satisfied with this.

I think that you have a duty of candor to Congress and the American people.

You never mentioned, you never disclosed that there were real problems about whether you were, in fact, going to be able to turn over those emails, correct?

Well, this is one of the--so he writes a letter. Lois Lerner's hard drive crashes 10 days later.

We do not have mutual interests with Iran. They are diametrically opposed, and they are a mortal enemy of the United States.

I appreciate the witnesses, and I yield back.

My personal feeling is if they will let the military do it and leave the politics out of it, I think they will do it.

It was an attempt at a deception of the public.

It seems to me that, you know, the President politicized this when he had a White House Rose Garden ceremony for Mr. Bergdahl's parents.

I have been a little concerned with what I have heard in two of the colloquies.

This whole idea with the video, this deception that was propagated to the American people... actually hurt the counterterrorism efforts.