Mike Johnson

The President does answer to Congress.

Without a division of centralized power, democracy becomes anarchy.

The Congress is a co-equal branch. I actually think it is the premiere branch because we are the ones that actually start the money.

But we have a crisis on our border.

I think in a bipartisan way, want to be as supportive as possible to make sure that our American companies and inventors and entrepreneurs aren't being put in any kind of a disadvantage.

We have benefitted in this subcommittee by some great back and forth dialogue.

This is an important part of our democracy and our system, and your voices are important.

I am here to express to you just simply the importance of developing and maintaining the Nation's water infrastructure needs.

In 2014, President Obama used the pardon power to commute the sentences of more than 1,700 Federal drug offenders.

There are claims of abuse of the pardon power by the current President, and I am sure we will hear that here today.

It looks like you are trying to purchase influence. It looks like it could be a violation of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution.

Did it occur to you that Members of the public, Members of Congress, the FCC, and President Trump himself, did it occur that we would all see that expenditure as an attempt by T-Mobile to gain acceptance by Donald Trump and his…

I and my colleagues look forward to these hearings on protecting the fundamental right to vote in America because we believe that an honor and a critical duty of the Congress.

The constant attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which enabled tens of millions of people to have access to the system don't do anything to cut the consolidation in the hospital and insurance industries or the rise in prescription…

Thank you, Madame Chair.

I don't think you can be the referee of your own game.

I don't favor open borders and I don't know anybody here that does either.

I am a life-long Republican. I have been a Republican longer than some of you have been alive.

Your job is to revisit the Act, and I am hopeful and expect that you will do it.

It is just not a feasible timetable.

I have found it a bit absurd since I got to Congress to look into all this...

That is ridiculous that you, the head of the agency, don't know of this issue of waste, fraud, and abuse that is rampant within your agency.

You don't know about this gross mismanagement, fraud, waste, and abuse that's taken place in your agency that was found to be true by the Office of Inspector General?

I have heard that we are using children, toddlers, and infants.

That is permanent separation, and that is in part due to policies that fail to control our border.