"We are regulating practices into the ground."
"those who would seek to use efforts in the form of amendments that ultimately are pro-Putin should be defeated on the Floor."
"I want to thank you and the Ranking Member. I want to thank our witnesses who have endured us for the last couple of hours."
"I get the sense we do it with a vendetta. Like, I think this was wrong, and you were the one that did it."
"Americans deserve nothing short than top-tier, customer-focused, accessible and efficient services from their government."
"We owe it to our constituents, to the American public, to keep our commitment to improving government work for the people."
"The freeze constricted, as we all know, the job market and destroyed employee morale and employee welfare in many respects."
"It is clear to me that policies such as the hiring freeze that we have heard about over and over again contributed to some extent to this whole issue of a customer service crisis."
"We have got to at some point realize that we cannot allocate the previous amount of resources to a mountain that is growing, crying out for help."
"It takes a minute to allocate resources to deal with Social Security's backup, with the backup at the State Department."
"Joe Biden did not create this inflation."
"In the 1970s, following 2 back to back Republican administrations, Ronald Reagan and his successor, inflation hit 12.6 percent."