I look forward to hearing from our witnesses about how CISA can continue to improve the CDM program, including how it can gain visibility into operational technology, a priority for me.

We all remember learning about the SolarWinds intrusion in December 2020, which highlighted how vulnerable Federal agencies were to foreign espionage campaigns and how outdated our Federal network cyber defenses were.

Fortunately, upon taking office shortly after the SolarWinds incident, President Biden quickly took critical actions to modernize our cyber defenses.

Unfortunately, the current Republican Majority appears to be turning its back on bipartisan cooperation again.

Under the Trump administration's unconscionable family separation policy, for example, over 5,500 children were taken from their parents at the border.

Given the hearing title, it's apparently lost on Republicans that it was actually the Trump administration's border policies that imposed devastating human costs.

family separation is bad, and I think it talks about our values as American citizens.

I was pleased that President Biden signed into law that bill last year.

The Republican Majority is unfortunately engaging in partisan politics, again, with today's hearing.

Throughout this committee's history, we have tried to work in a bipartisan manner to help combat human trafficking.

We must never, ever return to the failed border and immigration policies of the last administration.

Twenty-two years ago, everything we knew about our Nation's security changed.

This entire endeavor is nothing more than a political stunt hatched in back rooms.

You don't impeach the President or a Cabinet Secretary because you do not like their policies.

Repeating the same hearing over and over again until extreme MAGA Members get their way is not oversight.

The fact is that the administration's plans to address the challenges at our Southwest Border are working.

I am embarrassed for the Republican Majority wasting the committee's time on so-called investigations.

More than 90 percent of hard drugs such as fentanyl enter the United States through legal crossings at ports of entry.

Dragging Border Patrol Chiefs away from their jobs for politicized interviews is not oversight.

What we don't want, and what some on this committee are hell-bent on doing, is we don't want to demonize or scapegoat immigrants, refugees, and people that need the most help.

Every time an opportunity presents itself to put resources on the border Democrats are the one who vote for it.

If the Republican Majority doesn't like what they are doing or how they are doing it, they should get off their soapbox and work with Democrats.

I am embarrassed for the Republican Majority--wasting the committee's time on this so-called 'investigation.'

Our country needs responsible leadership. It needs border security.

The Majority has proven itself to be uninterested in legislating and incapable of serious oversight.