"As his Administration continued, Trump continued to undermine a professional, expert, nonpartisan Federal workforce, and to undermine scientific and policy expertise."
"Some people love to denigrate and castigate the Federal workforce, but I do not do that."
"If we have thousands of more political appointments, that is thousands of more positions that will take a year or two or even more to fill."
"Our Constitution clearly defines roles for the branches of government. Congress writes the laws and appropriates funding."
"You can debate the substance of issues, all that you want in a wide open, robust way, you can debate the process is taking place as much as you want. But you cannot engage in face-to-face personal ins..."
"At a certain point, the Republican conference is going to have to get on top of their Marjorie Taylor Greene problem, but instead they continue to empower her."
"This was to me a radical breach of decorum and I would hope that Speaker Johnson, if not, Chairman Comer, could get on top of what's taking place over there."
"All of it follows from the lawlessness of Donald Trump, who made them launch this stupid impeachment investigation in the first place."
"I appreciate today's consideration of the Federal Contractors Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act, as well as the work of our colleague, Ms. Mace, in leading on this legislation."
"I strongly support the Reuse Excess Property Act, which would increase transparency across the government by strengthening reporting requirements around excess personal property."
"I want to urge my colleagues to support this commonsense legislation."
"Thanks, Mr. Chairman. The legislation would require additional reporting on certain Federal projects over budget by a billion dollars or 5 years behind schedule."