"So if we would have done better with improving immigration or making a pathway and where there was a bipartisan Gang of Eight in the Senate, and we didn't even entertain the bill in the House, when we..."
"I just wanted to thank all of you, first of all. I used to work at Crittenton Care and Counseling Center in Illinois, believe it or not, and part of that was I worked with parents who had the propensi..."
"And can you imagine being a child? I know we talk a lot about mass shootings, but these are everyday occurrences in some of our neighborhoods."
"It gives them a very shortened sense of their own lives."
"I just--I talk about the south side of Chicago but actually in my rural area I just met with 50 children from the 7th grade to seniors in high school."
"I just get amazed every time I come back to this committee."
"I know that since I have been here, no Democrat thought that was a perfect bill."
"It was safer to have a baby 25 years ago, and it is not just from people eating fried chicken."
"This is such a dark stain on our history every day as we are putting people through this."
"I've been on this committee for a little over 6 years. And 6 years of it I was in the minority."
"It was embarrassing and so disrespectful what they did to the former President."
"The conflicts of conflating official and political activity are innumerable."