Michael Guest

I hope the testimony we hear today helps inform our committee's work, moving forward.

This forum provides an important opportunity to hear from Members outside the Homeland Security Committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for holding this Member Day hearing.

This law would require your successor to develop and exercise and evaluate the effectiveness of our Nation's ability to identify and deter terrorists.

I support legislation sponsored by my fellow New Yorker, Representative Carolyn Maloney, the Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act.

This should make sense to nobody, in my opinion.

I am going to be voting no, but I just want to explain why I am voting no...

I would be willing to work with you on this bill to make this bill better and, quite frankly, more expansive...

On Sunday, Mississippi lost a talented young woman when she tragically died in an airplane accident. Lake Little had accomplished a great deal in her lifetime. She was an honors student, a skilled athlete, and a volunteer in her local…

I believe that if these agencies that I just spoke of, if these agencies were abolished, that our country would be substantially less safe.

How to effectively counter the serious potential adverse impact of terror content and misinformation is certainly a complex problem.

The energy security of our partners, particularly our NATO partners, is essential to our security as well as theirs.

This is why I am offering an amendment to the State Department Authorization Act which would create a category of leave for R&R breaks.

Recently a Member of Congress has referred to those detention centers as concentration camps, remarks which myself and other Members of Congress find highly offensive.

Our Nation has been built on democratic ideas. Over the course of our Nation's history, these principles have been threatened by forces that do not share our ideas of democracy. Due to the heroic efforts of the men and women of our…

We have not provided you the resources you need for personnel, we have not provided you the facilities that we need, we have not provided you the court officials that you need, and our current--we have not approved a supplemental funding…

I want to apologize to you and the men and women that you serve with for these untrue remarks.

I would like to apologize to you today for the inaction of the U.S. Congress.

We see increased military bases, increased military ports, a dominant ice breaker fleet--when compared to America, 40 to 2.

I think what I would emphasize in this context is that the trade number has increased but so has engagement in so many other spheres.

We are so blessed in this country to have a government that we say our rights come from a creator, not from government.

Make no mistake about this, with their offer of the Huawei and ZTE technology that we know they have given to the Maduro regime, China is looking to harness and capture despotic, authoritarian regimes.

The behavior of the Chinese Government and Chinese firms undermine the sovereignty of national security not just of their countries but of the United States and the western hemisphere.

I am deeply concerned about the increasing influence of China in the western hemisphere.

As the American public, as Members of Congress, we often don't give you and the men and women that you work with the credit that you deserve.