"It's a pleasure to be able to have this meeting right here in Bloomfield. I wish we could do every hearing in the district!"
"Members of Congress are often underappreciated here in New Jersey."
"the lack of attention to the problem there by public officials was incredibly disheartening."
"We're here today to discuss online imposters and disinformation."
"When I was a Russian Policy Officer in the Navy, I learned how central information warfare is in Russia's quest to dominate Western nations."
"I'm proud to be a co-sponsor of his bill, H.R. 4355."
"By driving a wedge into the social fissures in our society, sowing seeds of mistrust about our friends and neighbors, exploiting social discord, they think they might destabilize our democracy."
"I think particularly the threat to our national security, the threat to our Democratic elections. We have seen now for 2020 going forward, a forward looking threat with the president withholding suppo..."
"We need the full report. We need the I.G.'s report, and then we need to keep pressure on the president, because we know he said in the past that he would turn over certain documents or do certain thin..."
"The fact that we have gotten here, that we still don't have the whistleblower report shows that this was needed, this step was needed. We needed to pressure the president to turn that over."
"We see the president then threatening another foreign power with that -- with the withholding support, and then trying to affect the elections, trying to get dirt on his opponent. That was simply a li..."