Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, let me say that the Biden administration--we just had a classified hearing so the questions could be asked. They have been transparent. If there are any questions that need to be asked--as I said earlier, my staff and other staff were informed and briefed. The fact of the matter is the Biden administration has declassified a lot of the information, and that is why we read it in The New York Times today and in The Washington Post yesterday. The American people know what is going on. There is no secrecy in what took place. We know that there was a decision, as indicated in the Times today, that we would get more information by bringing it down in the Atlantic Ocean and obtaining the balloon, looking at it, learning from it, having more of a benefit than China did with what its civilian balloon was attempting to do. We know that. If there is any question that any Member of Congress has about what took place or transpired, one, you can first just go to The New York Times or The Washington Post; two, yesterday, Secretary of State Blinken held a press conference; or you could have gone to the classified hearing this morning where all the decisionmakers were present to ask any question that you wanted to. There has been complete transparency by the Biden administration. Mr. Speaker, I conclude by saying there is one thing that we all agree upon, that the United States' sovereignty was crossed by the PRC.…”