"We need leadership from the White House that looks at this problem in a comprehensive way, and looks at dealing with it and all of those aspects."
"Well, I know a lot of Senate Republicans are very concerned. The conversations that I have, they think this is misguided. I think we all agree the use of tariffs should be related to trade policy, not..."
"I have recently read a report from--it's the Center for International Private Enterprise, which talks about how we need to protect democracies, particularly in Africa, from a flood of what they call '..."
"Well, I--my sense before your answers are--is that we--from what I just read, is that we don't really know what we need to do in order to counter the threats that you have just mentioned."
"I think we all agree that we want to expedite any of the hearings that folks have."
"But I am not sure how the fact that you give folks a choice between being separated from their children or being detained, and then asking them to waive the 20-day period where they children cannot st..."
"So do you support the proposal for a binary choice policy? What are your thoughts on it?"
"How long is too long for a child to be separated from their family?"
"But in many cases that did not happen, and it certainly appears that there was not any planning done on how to reunite families as we went through that."
"But it was clear that families would be separated at that point."
"So you will commit to this Committee that you are not going to use that type of language going forward?"