"Hearings with actions make sense. Hearings with inaction are really a waste of time."
"So if we had a congressional liaison that would work with these type of cases, to work with some of our other colleagues, to inform them and keep this in the forefront, is that something that would be..."
"I need you to be the diplomat. I need to be the jerk."
"We are serious. And even if it goes beyond the normal just waiting, Congress is serious about resolving this."
"If you got paid based on the number of kids that came back from abroad, it would be every day you were saying, 'Well, how many people have come back?'"
"I understand some of your diplomatic issues that you have to deal with from trying to balance diplomacy at the same time as trying to make sure that we protect the rights of parents."
"child abduction is really child abuse."
"All right, so we are talking about $23 million there for the pilot, is that correct?"
"Thank you to the ranking member, Mr. Connolly, who has, over and over again, expressed a willingness to work in a bipartisan way to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse."
"Well, I know that maritime constitutes salt water, generally; not always, but many times salt water."
"So when we have this technology, is this something that could be viable long-term, or are we going to be spending another $3.2 billion five years from now to replace readers?"