"This is just a way to clearly ignore mandatory minimums."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman and thank you Madam U.S. Attorney and thank you for the meeting in my office."
"That is taking all meaning out of the word 'mandatory.' It is replacing your and your colleagues' judgment for the judgment of folks who wrote the law."
"The plan is not for the Attorney General to be in the middle of this at all. The statute says that the Attorney General is."
"We need to get it done on a medium to long-term basis, not another band-aid approach."
"I want to echo the comments that have been made about the bipartisan work of this committee on infrastructure."
"I think it is the leading, according to the State Department. That has not changed throughout this process, has it?"
"Right now the goal of the Administration in this negotiation has essentially been dumbed down to a year warning flag."
"A lot of businesses would otherwise expand to grow beyond that. This is a big inhibiting factor?"
"I believe that many of the actions being contemplated as part of this order may actually result in outcomes contrary to our collective goals."
"Whenever they occur, it reminds us that we must all collaborate and we must all do better."