Jody Hice

Are we now going to say that a 19-year-old who is a legal adult in the United States does not have the mental capacity to own a shotgun or an AR-15, but they have the mental capacity to enlist in the military?

We have to keep history and context in mind in all of this.

It would be wrong for us, just out of the sake of doing something, to measure our personal compassion by how much of other people's constitutional rights we take from them.

There is a lot of data that points to the fact that gun control leads not to more safer communities, but to more dangerous communities.

It doesn't appear that the attempts that are produced by the gun restrictions are having any effect of keeping bad people from getting guns.

The answer is not defunding the police. The answer is not pitting one group of Americans against another.

Efforts to divert violent criminals out of the criminal justice system have failed.

Knee-jerk reactions to impose gun control policies that seek to curtail our constitutional right to bear arms are not the answer.

Our local officials cannot defund our police, and our prosecutors cannot be soft on crime.

We must learn from these senseless acts of violence and take concrete action to reduce violence in the future.

The big lie in all of this is that there were no problems in this past election. This last election was filled with problems.

I, likewise, am deeply grateful for your leadership in putting this together. Mr. Speaker, this is a call for our entire country to come together. This should not be something that is wrapped up in partisan politics. We are talking about…

Simply us spending more money does not produce accountability elsewhere.

I wholly believe that our current tax system is extremely outdated, complicated, and fully unsustainable.

We have got to have answers.

The IRS has not been trusted with the money they have been provided.

More funding alone is far, far, far too simplistic of an answer.

My Democratic colleagues are all too willing to go along with this mindset.

They have not gotten their tax refunds, and they need that money.

The answer is, no, it is not ready.

If elected, he would decertify the 2020 Georgia election results.

Accountability starts right here in this committee, Mr. Chairman. We have got to do our business of oversight and hold accountable these agencies that are not doing their job to protect the American tax dollars.

For all we know, American tax dollars could actually be helping to fund Putin's war against Ukraine.

Improper payments have been a thorn in the side of our government probably forever.

Estimates literally range into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and much of that is feared to have been lost to organized crime.