Steny Hoyer

If you have a system that allows the President unilaterally to change it and turn civil servants into political appointees... then you have undermined the whole point of having a merit system civil service.

I'm glad to be with you, and I thank you for holding this hearing and that there are so many participating.

They`re people. They`re our colleagues. And, yes, you may have disagreements, but I don`t know anybody, including Steve King, who you precluded from going on committees, for much less, and this is an AR-15 in the hands of Ms. Greene. I…

The conduct we are judging today continued to occur even after Representative Greene became a candidate, and even after she was elected.

The conduct we are judging today continue to occur even after Representative Greene became a candidate and even after she was elected.

The imagery of Marjorie Taylor Greene holding an AR-15 with the sort of frightened faces of three Democratic congresswomen on the other side is the kind of thing that creates a culture of violence around politics.

Squad`s worst nightmare.

If you don't do it, then we're going to do it for you and he is basically giving him about 24 to 48 hours to make that move.

This is not, as Liz Cheney says just some action. She characterize it as the biggest betrayal of any president of the United States in our history.

The president of the United States summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.

I hope he will sign it. I know he has concerns about a section that Senator Inhofe said ought not to be in the bill. But whether it should or should not, it is not in the bill, and the conferees determined that it should not be in the…

I didn't mention one bill that is still percolating. We passed it 335-78. The Senate passed it, I think, 86-14, or something. The National Defense Authorization Act is going to be going to the President soon. I am hopeful the President…

I thank the gentleman. I don't have the facts, but, obviously, our position is if there are facts being raised that ought to be looked at, they ought to be looked at. But I don't have the facts, and I don't want to comment on the issue…

I thank the son of a great man, who that great man would say is a great son. He loved John, but he respected John. He believed that John was enhancing the Sarbanes legacy, and he was right. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time…

I know that I speak for every Member of the House, particularly those of us who have had the privilege of knowing Martha Roby well and spending time with her, she is a decent and good representative. She is a wonderful representative of…

The extent to which Republicans were refusing to accept the outcome of the election and recognize Joe Biden, Kamala Harris as our next president and vice president is astounding.

You know, but I am very, very proud of what we did in 1999. We prevented genocide on the European Continent.

Frankly, blocking Kosova's recognition in places around the world and its membership in the United Nations only holds up Serbia.

I would like to start in Kosova. First, the good: Kosova is an independent country, and it has been for more than a decade.

Well, I was pleased to schedule this. Obviously, as you know, it passed the Senate the other day. Hopefully, we will pass it on suspension next week and it will be sent to the President. Hopefully, the President will sign it. Obviously…

I may get into this next week, and I am hopeful that the gentleman is right that we don't have a colloquy next week, that we would have completed our business, as I have been talking about. Mr. Speaker, I have been blessed, the House has…

I want to focus on the restoration of congressionally directed spending.

Our rules ought to facilitate the House's ability to move swiftly to address the most pressing challenges facing our country.

No matter what we do in the rules, no matter what our rules say, if we don't have comity and respect for one another, the rules will not make us work better.

I am not going to prolong this. The only thing I would say is, under the gentleman's theory, Madam Speaker, we wouldn't need the FDA because, clearly, these companies would not do anything just because of profit. And I don't allege that…