It is completely unacceptable that this has taken place.

The United States must know and control who enters and exits our territory. That is a basic condition of sovereignty.

What I would like is a commitment from you that DHS will engage with my office to determine whether using the authorities and funding you are seeking for PFAS contamination remediation to ensure that folks... are protected from those…

Will you designate someone in the Department to meet, either in person or remotely, with me and the relevant local law enforcement agencies in that region of Georgia so that we can determine how DHS can support our local law enforcement…

I want to ask you for the assurance once again, Secretary Mayorkas, that you will use every authority at your disposal and work closely with the Department of Justice and other Federal agencies to protect HBCUs in Georgia and nationwide.

I do think that anything so named and anything that purports to engage the Department in work related to purported or real disinformation warrants congressional scrutiny to ensure that there are not First Amendment issues implicated.

What I want is a commitment from you personally that you will ensure every relevant office within the Department of Homeland Security is expediting the development of these systems so that we can deploy them at the Port of Savannah and…

I see power as a means of serving ordinary people.

Why should you believe, Mr. Taylor, the company they engaged in fraud against the United States is fixing this?

The effort by the outgoing administration to seize and retain power, to defy the will of the people, to use all of the instruments of federal power, the Department of Justice, the intelligence community to subvert constitutional processes…

These are folks who give so much for their own country, they sacrificed so much. They and their family should not have to sacrifice a safe home.

Congress should be doing more work like this. Instead of folks using the power of government to thank each other on go partisan grounds, just to try to gain power, we need to focus on serving the people who elected us.

Why should we believe your assurances when your company engaged in a 6-year-long scheme to defraud the United States?

This is not acting honestly or respecting our third parties, meaning the Army, and treating them with integrity and professionalism.

Our military personnel, stateside and abroad, sacrifice continually in service to this Nation, as do their families.

To add insult to injury, yes.

Captain Choe, had your daughter ever had rashes like that, the symptoms of the severe dermatitis that she has developed, prior to moving into your Balfour home at Fort Gordon?

I am shocked, Mr. Taylor, that you deny these issues are systemic. They are clearly systemic.

You have repeatedly reported mold and gotten no response. Your doctor has told you that you need to leave the home for the sake of your daughter's health.

Yes. Which I challenged that reasoning by saying, well, there is considerable thought behind a collection notice being purposely sent to me.

Why should a company convicted of major criminal fraud, that engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States, remain in a position of trust?

You know you are under investigation. You know you are in hot water.

They deserve the very best. It is of utmost importance that they be provided with safe housing.

I have never received an apology from Balfour Beatty or any of their representatives at any point in time.

Let me ask you, during this period in the middle of 2020, when you were reporting to Balfour the urgency of your requests that mold you were observing in your home be remediated, were you doing that mostly in person or by the phone?