"Thank you, Madam Chair, and Director Carroll, and Sheriff Ivey. I just want to thank you for doing everything you can to try to save lives, and I believe that you all are trying to save lives."
"if we are serious about stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the United States, we are going to have to get serious in this Congress about securing the border."
"I would strongly encourage you to get a plan as quickly as possible to this committee."
"We don't need a plan to put a Band-Aid on it, and then have you all come back next year asking for another assistance subsidy bailout."
"Today my Democratic counterparts on this committee will argue that climate change is an imminent threat to our national security."
"This outlandish proposal and all proposals that resemble it are an affront to the citizens and the economy of this Nation."
"the Green New Deal stands to decimate those rural communities."
"The elimination of farmland in order to build these projects will not only cost U.S. jobs but also put our food supply in jeopardy."
"This is the first hearing of this committee, which has a referral on H.R. 5 that is scheduled on the bill."
"H.R. 5 totally redefines one and delivers a serious blow to the other."
"I am deeply troubled, and I believe most Americans would be deeply troubled by what is really there."
"It's completely unacceptable that this bill totally guts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993--this country's flagship law in defense of individual religious freedom."