"I am struggling to try to figure out why this Administration proposes essentially to slash $1.5 trillion in Medicaid"
"Can you give me a single example of the type of waste, fraud, and abuse that you are trying to address that would justify billions of dollars in cuts?"
"Can you give me a single example of the waste, fraud, and abuse that justifies cutting billions of dollars from children, low income seniors, and those receiving nursing home care?"
"The Trump administration's family separation policy and the practice of ripping children out of the hands of their parents was un-American, unacceptable, and unconscionable."
"In June of 2018, when asked if the zero-tolerance policy would be deterring, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, 'Yes, hopefully, people will get the message.'"
"And I know Ms. Meng mentioned something. I am glad that she had an opportunity to go to the border, because if you see it firsthand and you talk to the professionals and you are objective, you see the..."
"It needs to be an 'all of the above' approach. It needs to be defensive barriers."
"Thank you for the opportunity to testify on funding priorities for the fiscal year 2020 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill."
"I am here to request that the First Step Act receive the full funding amount authorized by law."
"What does seem to be the case is that this is more bluster and misdirection from the President of the United States of America because he apparently is concerned that despite his promise that we will ..."
"He walked away from a $25 billion border wall deal in exchange for DACA."
"He shuts down the government for 35 days in a reckless fashion and then says uncle at the end and engages in an unconditional surrender when he could have gotten at least $1.6 billion."