"The track record on the House Republican side as it relates to this issue and the pandemic has been quite shameful."
"If people cannot report incidents which would have national security or safety implications, then that also has serious consequences for us."
"We should encourage more reporting, not less, on UAPs."
"We should come to this hearing with an open mind, and we should not let our existing ideas restrict us on either side."
"I want to thank Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna for their leadership in pushing this hearing forward."
"We cannot be afraid of asking questions and we cannot be afraid of the truth."
"I hear over and over from many agencies the stigma around reporting and investigating UAPs prevents us from getting real answers."
"Just want to also, just to be clear, just to review for the hearing, Democrats want to solve drug trafficking, we want to solve human trafficking, and certainly want to solve any sort of arms traffick..."
"The Arctic is also a case study in not only how climate change impacts us globally."
"the Biden-Harris administration's national strategy for the Arctic region, which was published, of course, just last year, is a vital step in creating a cross-agency plan for the Arctic as it relates ..."
"We should stop advancing a narrative which undermines a resistance to Vladimir Putin, who has killed thousands of people."