President Trump's declaration of a national emergency, as an excuse to build a wall that Congress explicitly rejected, is an abuse of his constitutional oath, and cannot be tolerated by a coequal branch of government under the…

It is unbelievable that so much harm has occurred to so many people with so little congressional oversight.

I have served in Congress for almost 25 years, and I have participated in hundreds of hearings, but I have rarely been confronted with overseeing policy choices so dreadful and grave that they fundamentally undermine our standing as a…

Do we know the names of the kids, the names of the parents, the location of both, so that they can be reunified quickly? If not, why not?

The DHS Inspector General and the GAO concluded that DHS was inadequately prepared to implement this policy in an organized and efficient manner.

Yet we continue to receive reports that families are being torn apart at the border.

DHS snatched screaming children from their parents' arms without bothering to make sure they captured sufficient data to reunite them in the future.

We will finally seek to hold the administration accountable for its indefensible and repugnant family separation policy.

It is a terrible irony that so many of these families undertook a perilous journey to protect their children only to see their children ripped from their arms by those who were supposed to provide refuge.

Family separation policy has stained the Nation and hurt our people, leaving families in pain and our Government in shame.

The time for this administration to postpone accountability is over.

Congress is a coequal branch of government. We have a responsibility to conduct oversight. This is a responsibility we take very seriously.