We should end unnecessary detention. We should move to a case management system, which DHS itself prototyped and then ended in 2017, very successfully.

Your story has broken the heart of America, but your courage gives us a second chance to get it right.

Our country is a Nation of immigrants. Except for the descendants of slaves and the Native Americans, all of us are here as immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.

Violent crime such as murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault is common.

The American people are up in arms about reports, both from the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security and the media and various human rights groups, about the dangerous overcrowding, spreading infections, influenza…

the purpose of the Domestic Emoluments Clause was to say that the President has one way to make money off of his tenure as President, which is his salary.

You hold Federal office in America, it's not a money-making operation.

there was no detailed legal analysis--or there was no legal analysis at all done of the proposed merger before it was accomplished.

I just want to say that OPM made a very significant decision, essentially, to dismantle itself or to dissolve itself without first obtaining any formal opinion as to the legality of this decision.

So everybody has a duty to present documents and witnesses that are being requested by Congress.

Those who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

All right. Mr. Billy, so if I'm reading the last several responses correctly together, there was no detailed legal analysis--or there was no legal analysis at all done of the proposed merger before it was accomplished.

It is indeed up to us to determine what we're going to legislate about, and so it's up to us to determine what information we're going to get.

This is a lease that relates to the U.S. Government and it relates to the Constitutional powers of Congress.

the commonsense perception of this is simply that the President as President of the United States, who oversees GSA, is acting as the landlord.

The President doesn't have the power to impeach Congress. We have the power to impeach the President.

It is an absolute constitutional imperative for us to do our jobs, having taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

taxpayers funded massive payments to the Trump properties such as the Trump Hotel in D.C.

the purpose of the Foreign Emoluments Clause was to guarantee the independence of the President so he would be zealously devoted to the American people.

Our job is to make sure that the Constitution is being respected, and the rule of law.

If this body has the power to impeach the President, which we do, we have, by definition, all of the subsidiary power to get any information that we need in order to investigate the President.

We are the lawmaking branch of government. We represent the people. The President's job is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not thwarted, not circumvented, not violated.

And so that's why we're very concerned to get as much information from the GSA about whatever you know and whatever you can find out about foreign governments using the Trump Hotel for business because of the President's continuing…

I believe, based on what I've seen, that the Trump Hotel and President Trump are in violation of the lease...

There is nothing illegitimate about the representatives of the people obtaining documents that go to our constitutional duty.