Clay Higgins actually said...

"I respectfully object to House proxy voting and remote committee attendance."

"I respectfully urge my colleagues across the aisle to encourage Madam Speaker Pelosi and the majority leadership to end proxy voting, and remote committee hearings."

"I believe that this hearing should have been canceled or postponed and these gentlemen should be able to go and do their work."

"I hope America is watching, because this is exactly the kind of theater that this town has produced."