José E. Serrano

So, Attorney General, in your testimony you said violent crime has declined since 2016, but as we learned from the FBI, home-grown violent extremism has grown over the same time.

You have no instructions, the Census Bureau, to take citizenship question information and pass it on to the Administration.

There is a reason for putting that question there.

I think you have been upright, you have been an example of integrity, and I know that you are going to abide by the law.

Your March 24 letter indicated that some actions the Special Counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction of justice concerns have not been publicly reported; will these actions be identified in the report sent to Congress?

These are simply unacceptable reductions.

I look forward to reviewing the Mueller report myself, and I know my constituents do as well.

Very briefly, my last question. I was part of this committee right after 9/11 and we gave a lot of money to the FBI, and rightfully so, to do what had to be done after 9/11.

This is an individual that could not be terminated, this is an individual that had zero oversight.

We are elected to do a job as appropriations. Not everybody is in the Constitution, our job is in the Constitution.

Is it a policy of this administration that they do not support minority-owned businesses? Because that is exactly what is reflected in a 75-percent cut to a budget.

By not showing up... it is disrespectful.

These are legitimate questions that we have for Secretary Ross that should be asked here today...

I suspect you could do a better job than private industry in putting together an app that could give us information.

This budget proposes to cut an additional 248 employees from the National Weather Service, despite regular reports, including one from GAO of understaffing...

What is the budget situation you are in? Is it--I mean, because we have been around here long enough to also know that there is another way of presenting budgets...

Are you also aware that over 50 percent of our Nation's Black Ph.D. Graduates in the marine and atmospheric sciences benefited from these programs?

This budget would, in my opinion, halt the early careers of possibly thousands of young scientists.

I am having a hard time taking this budget proposal seriously.

We think what you do is important for the future of our country. We want you to do more.

75 percent of our profession is perception and the perception by many is that it is being accelerated so that it can come in and excite the country a few months before a November election.

Bottom line, are these sudden program shifts being made in response to political pressure?

The prompt and full disclosure of the Mueller report.

We want to thank you for your testimony today. We want to thank you for your advocacy on behalf of your agency.

We want you to do more of it. We want you to have the opportunity to do it better