Bennie Thompson

Republicans are acting in bad faith. Unfortunately, that's nothing new.

Republicans may not like the Biden administration's policies, but policy differences are not grounds for impeachment under the Constitution.

Democrats want to strengthen border security. We want to keep fentanyl off our streets.

Unfortunately, Republicans are willing to damage the Constitution they claim to hold dear because they think it will benefit them politically.

You cannot impeach a Cabinet Secretary because you don't like a President's policies.

Rule XI does not mention anything about having a Minority witness at any given hearing.

I am furnishing you with a demand for a Minority day hearing on this subject signed by all the Democratic Members of this committee.

Mr. Chairman, we all know that Secretary Mayorkas has been willing to appear before this committee. He is not running from anything.

Before we begin today's hearing, I want to address misinformation my Republican colleagues are spreading, falsely alleging that Secretary Mayorkas is refusing to testify before this committee.

Again, this isn't a real impeachment, it's a pre-determined, pre-planned, partisan political stunt.

Just as we've said all along, the outcome of Republicans' so-called impeachment 'investigation' has been predetermined from the start.

Months ago, Chairman Green promised donors at a campaign event that he would bring an impeachment case against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Let's drop this baseless impeachment and get back to doing the real work of securing the homeland and helping people across this great country.

Transnational repression is a relatively new term being attached to a substantial--but under-reported--common global practice.

DHS's commitment to fully enforcing UFLPA, as its efforts to date show.

UFLPA is an important means of combatting and addressing the genocide of the Uyghur people.

Forced labor is a huge problem, obviously, for the people who are forced to do the labor.

Republicans are acting in bad faith.

This isn't a real impeachment. It is a MAGA spectacle paid for by American tax dollars for Republican political gain.

Just as we have said all along, the outcome of Republicans' so-called impeachment investigation has been predetermined from the start.

I look forward to continuing to work with Secretary Mayorkas on critical homeland security issues facing the country.

Today, I am pleased to be here to set the record straight on a dangerous and unfounded conspiracy theory that my Republican colleagues continue to promote: the notion that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) engaged in Government…

President Biden has made developing AI policy a priority.

AI is not some hypothetical technology of the future, but a tool being used today with tremendous potential but also risks.

I have always been a strong supporter of the Secret Service's National Computer Forensics Institute.