Obviously, it is intentional. He is not doing things unintentionally.

The truth is, under the last administration, DHS took children from their parents; forced individuals fleeing violence and persecution to wait in Mexico.

I believe you say based on your research, which I've also seen, that approximately 70 to 90 percent of guns found during--by Mexican authorities during criminal investigations are linked back to the United States.

So there are nearly 500,000 guns that go across the border from the United States to Mexico illegally as you point out.

The sad reality is that my colleagues on the Majority have no interest in any meaningful immigration reform.

If you want to talk about immigration reform and you want a fix at the border, come talk to us.

I know the Foreign Influence Task Force, FITF, was created in part to address the efforts of foreign entities to interfere in our elections and to try to infiltrate our national security.

The problem they have is that the FBI is doing its job in investigating their dear leader, Donald Trump.

It is certainly much more constructive and much more helpful than digging into the finances of a President's family.

I appreciated very much you saying in your opening statement that your comments are not directed at Chinese Americans or AAPI individuals who are in this country, but at the Chinese government.

Our concern is that you all have met with the committee majority, perhaps several times. You have provided information, documents, testimony, and we're in the dark and that is not how Congress works.

antifa is an ideology, not an organization.

One of the things that the Chairman has talked about here today several times is the notion of illegal firearms.

It is particularly odd to me to hear my Republican colleagues talk so much this week about backing the blue...

the biggest domestic terror threat is white nationalism, white supremacy.

the biggest threat to our homeland is not global terrorism, it is domestic terrorism.

It is particularly rich hearing accusations from my Republican colleagues that anyone is soft on crime.

We got to root out the bad apples because the vast, vast majority are really good apples.

I want to remind, you know, my colleagues across the aisle that six out of the top 10 high-crime states are red states.

We should be thankful that that person did not have a gun because instead of two injured staff members, we would have two dead staff members.

Unfortunately, I was not able to be present to vote on H.R. 3089 and H. Res. 363. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 213 and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 214. PERSONAL EXPLANATOIN

If there were universal background checks that would apply to private sales as well, that would have caught that shooter, wouldn't it have?

Just like the gun violence epidemic that is ravaging our country, Republicans refuse to address the source of the problem. We need comprehensive immigration reform, meaningful solutions to address our broken immigration system, and to live…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Last week, Speaker McCarthy came to my district to speak at the New York Stock Exchange to give a speech about this proposed default on America act. He threatened the Nation with economic…

Unfortunately, I was not able to be present to vote today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 190, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 191, and ``nay'' on rollcall No. 192. PERSONAL EXPLANATION