Jerry Nadler

The President doesn't come across as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.

That is a man who is incapable of avoiding criminal liability, a man who is wholly unfit for office.

The Hur Report does help us draw a distinction between President Biden and Donald Trump, just not the one you want.

Mr. Chair, House Republicans may be desperate to convince America that White, conservative men are on the losing end of a two tiered justice system, a theory that appeals to the MAGA crowd, but has no basis in reality.

The reason why President Biden is not facing a single charge, Mr. Hur, is not because you went easy on him, but because, after reviewing seven million documents and interviewing nearly 150 witnesses, including the President himself, you…

Do you agree that causing someone to lie to the FBI is a classic example of obstruction of justice?

Well, I'll tell you it was because they were concerned that Trump had lied about possession of those documents and might conceal or destroy them.

You write in your report that President Biden, quote, ``would not have handed the government classified documents from his own home on a silver platter if he had willfully retained those documents for years.''

Materials submitted by the Honorable Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary from the State of New York, for the record.

The previous speaker said that illegal aliens who committed crimes should be detained, and, indeed, they should. However, this bill says that illegal aliens who somebody thinks may have committed a crime should be detained mandatorily…

They are embarrassed to admit that the real reason they abandoned the deal was because Donald Trump told them to.

The notion that the President has all the authority... is a fantasy.

No President has ever had the ability to fully stop unlawful crossings.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, for holding this important hearing and for shining a light on efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children.

I hope that we will take advantage of the opportunity to avoid party politics, so that we can delve into critical areas that should be a bipartisan concern.

I will be very brief in closing. This legislation does nothing to improve our immigration system while making a mockery of basic due process. That is why it should be defeated. I urge all Members to oppose it, and I yield back the balance…

Mr. Bentz says that the person to be deported has to be shown to have been guilty by clear and convincing evidence. I always thought the standard of proof for a crime was evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. This just shows again how…

I would remind the gentlewoman and others that people who engage in high-speed chases with the Border Patrol are already deportable. The question on this bill is not whether they should be deported. The question is whether they should be…

I think that when you talk about people invading the country, 'poisoning the blood of America,' those sorts of terms, it adds fuel to the fire of these kinds of theories.

So, there is no basis for Texas, or any other State claiming authority, to do anything other than what the Federal Government does in this area?

Now, the premise of this hearing is that we are faced with an invasion from abroad, a foreign invasion, and the States have the power under the Constitution to repel an invasion.

I find myself in rare agreement with Mr. McClintock--not on the subject of immigration and not on the actions of the Biden Administration.

Unfortunately, today's hearing was not an auspicious start. It is based on a crackpot legal theory...

We know from the newspapers and from talking to our colleagues in the Senate that Senate negotiators, Democrats and Republicans, are close to an agreement on a bill to provide for border security and an immigration bill. The Speaker of the…

The reason the gentleman from Arizona couldn't find any Border Patrol agents is because Republicans have refused to vote the appropriations to greatly increase the number of Border Patrol agents that the Biden administration has proposed…