Joe Crowley: “When the Medicare Part D bill was passed, and I voted against it, and we went through a political charade of almost 4…”

In case the gentleman was going to yield back, I just want to thank my staff as well, both those who worked back in 2004 to help pass the original legislation, and my staff today. In particular, I want to thank my chief of staff back home…

I do think that a $2 trillion or $2.5 trillion or whatever that number is going to be, it is going to be transformative, tremendously transformative.

I would hope that, for the record, our witnesses would tell us what we can do to illustrate to the entire Muslim world what China is doing not only to the Uighurs but in support of the Burmese regime.

I think the American people, they are looking for transformation in government. And this is a transformative time.