Jody Hice

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia has 18\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from the District of Columbia has 14 minutes remaining.

We can as well in a safe manner.

It's easy to talk about closing the economy when you're with the Federal Government and you continue getting paid all the time.

I continue to have grave reservations about these online hearings. This is no way to do the people's business.

We have a duty to be here in Washington and to serve the people who elected us.

Our collective resolve to flatten the curve in that regard has nonetheless paid a tremendous cost to our economy.

Disbanding or abolishing law enforcement is not now, nor will it ever be the solution.

It's utter foolishness for us to throw the baby out with the bath water.

But the movement right now to defund the police departments, this movement from the left, to me, right now is particularly disturbing.

Even just the nature of today's title, that somehow the U.S. Park Police attacked peaceful protesters is ludicrous.

My hope is that we will be able to see beyond the biased scope through which the Democrats are viewing these actions and establish a truthful history of what happened on that day.

What is the range of that device when it comes to warning the crowd?

Perhaps this is the story line's plot twist where this Committee focuses on facts instead of political points.

If we are looking to lay blame, those are the individuals you should cast as the villains in this plot.

This is even acknowledged by the Democrats' second panel witness in his written testimony, which states that the witness learned that Federal law enforcement officers from Park Police and U.S. Secret Service had sustained injuries.

this is just nothing more than political theater to come here and somehow pretend as though these were peaceful protesters

This is an issue that we have to resolve, not with just a bailout of $25 billion. They have $9 billion sitting in the bank over there. This is our time to be responsible with the people's money, and I urge my colleagues not to support this…

The Federal Government has a responsibility to help both individuals and businesses through this crisis because, as the government, they shut down the economy. But I do have deep concerns with the way in which we are attempting to go about…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, in a very short period of time, this body has moved an unprecedented amount of money at an unprecedented speed, and rather than taking a step back now and looking at the effectiveness of…

I would go with what he has to say about the ability of LGBT couples to parent and to foster.

Under President Trump, the Federal Government has sought to treat all Americans, gay or straight, religious, nonreligious fairly and justly.

Our founders thought it was problematic and that is why they put in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, in order to protect religious liberty.

The title of the hearing today, 'The Administration's Religious Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights,' is in itself, to me, a fundamental misconception of reality.

Upholding the First Amendment is not an absurdity train. Protecting the religious liberties of the people of this great country is not in any way absurd.

Our Special Operations warriors and our conventional forces who went out after 9/11 and fought to defend the cause of freedom and further the interest of the U.S. Government, we ought to be cared for.