"Why...we wouldn't view that as going back to the bad old days...I can't understand for a moment why anyone would support that kind of a policy shift."
"the administration was finding ways to test this out before they moved into a more official posture on it."
"The American people gave this Congress and this committee a mandate to restore our democracy and cleanup our government."
"In my 14 years there, I have been intimately involved in protecting the principle that public service is a public trust."
"We now find ourselves in an ethics crisis. The trigger was President Trump's refusal to divest his conflicting financial interests."
"H.R. 1 kicks off what I hope will be a wave of reform."
"Because when you step into that system, you step into a system that is owned by the people."
"People are sick and tired of being sick and tired, to use Fannie Lou Hamer's words, at a system that is run by somebody else."
"This is not theater. We're trying to set the table on the democracy, make people feel more empowered."
"If you just do one and you don't do the others, we're still frozen out; the system is still rigged."
"I spoke out early and forcefully about the unnecessary effort by Speaker Pelosi to create a separate, select committee which lacks any legislative authority."
"Climate change is real. The need to protect the environment is real."