"We are a land premised on opportunity and freedom and dedicated to the proposition that all of us are created equal."
"86 percent of the people convicted of fentanyl smuggling in 2021 were American citizens, not foreign nationals."
"The purpose of oversight is to collect facts that will allow us to legislate effectively to promote the common good and solve the Nation's problems."
"In March 2021, we exposed how the Trump administration's reckless mismanagement of small business relief programs led to nearly $84 billion in fraudulent loans."
"Our job on this committee is to defend our democracy and our basic institutions, to protect our rights as Americans."
"I have never seen more financial fraud and abuse of this system than I saw in the previous administration under Donald Trump."
"Let me say that, again, these programs saved lives."
"The bottom line here is that expanded unemployment insurance... allowed millions of people to fill in financial gaps."
"I am proud that we included those provisions in the CARES Act precisely to ferret out fraud, to try to prevent the waste and abuse."
"I was hopeful for an opportunity to consider together how we can identify schemes of fraud and self-enrichment."
"The traditional language of waste, fraud, and abuse does not quite capture the confidence games in organized criminal artifices."