Jeff Van Drew

I want to know. If you answer no, it wouldn't be a good thing, I want to know why not.

I am asking you what you feel as a human being, as a law enforcement officer who has been involved for most of your adult life.

Respectfully, I understand that. We're running out of time. Why did the Inspector General sound an alarm, though?

These Democratic policies might create sanctuaries for criminal illegal aliens, but they are creating a dystopian nightmare for law-abiding citizens and noncitizens alike who must live in them.

I don't know why we would divert resources, time, energy, and people power to actually going forward with that.

So, you're working on this?

We have a lot of concerns from the Republican side, and that the agency is being politicized.

I hope you won't participate in creating additional barriers to entry so that entrepreneurs cannot participate in the free-market society.

Do you believe that's your job?

I didn't believe that yours did.

Unfortunately, we created more companies now too big to fail.

I am asking you as a person, as a human being, sitting next to Mr. Rosenberg, is it good, should we--or is it a waste of time when all these people who wait for years, good, hardworking people that want the dream of the shining city on the…

If it is so good for us--and I am--it is a sincere question--why don't we just open the country up completely?

The misguided priorities of our intelligence community put every American at risk, and it is wrong.

I want to know why we don't know what happened here, that people in their churches had to worry.

Whatever damn rule it is that you have, we should change that rule because when something like this happens...

If you have a severe one, I am going to take a scalpel to that abscess.

Why don't we get the information when we ask for it, when we subpoena for it?

It is a damn shame to see what has become of our once universally respected FBI. We need structural change.

I thank Mrs. Miller-Meeks for the work she does and the difference that she makes. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), my friend. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, talking on the issue of a campaign being used for…

If any of you did it, you'd be in jail.

I appreciate Mr. LaMalfa's focus on what is a very important issue and it is a fairness issue. I appreciate the time and trouble he put into that. Well done. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy), my friend.

Can you guarantee that the Committee will receive a detailed and substantive response to our May 25th letter, that was a long time ago, by July 6th from Attorney General Garland himself and not from a delegate, not from one of his…

I feel like a broken record talking about the invasion of our southern border over and over again, but it continues to get worse day by day. When we have a President and an administration that do not take the crisis seriously, someone has…

I thank Mr. Langworthy for his focus on this. I spoke about it earlier. We need to talk about it over and over and over again until we have policies that make sure our American people are number one and are safe. Certainly, we can have…