Bill Delahunt: “Just put the facts out on the table. I just find it so amusing when I hear that national security and homeland defense…”

I believe ardently that it is the responsibility of these Committees to do the oversight that is necessary to repair the damage that was done in the preceding Administration to America's image.

I think it says something about our system, our political system and how, you know, how there are powerful interests that oftentimes, I believe, don't really understand their own interests in the long term.

I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. Madam Speaker, it was some 13 years ago that a friend of mine at home approached me and described to me the characteristics and symptoms of a disorder he called fragile x. He demonstrated a…

We didn't get here because of government. We got here because government didn't do its job.