It has always been focused on the preservation, protection of the homeland.

Your job is not an easy one. Since 9/11, it has never been easy.

Let me also say how disgraceful the display of rhetoric here today targeting our Secretary was for this committee.

I think it is time that we get beyond performance art and get to comprehensive immigration reform.

I think, you know, it is time that we get beyond performance art and get to comprehensive immigration reform.

it is time that we get beyond performance art and get to comprehensive immigration reform

Worse still, Republicans have proposed bills to effectively end asylum in this country.

I must remind my colleagues that the last time Republicans recklessly shut the Government down, they forced the dedicated members of the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, and other security agencies to work without pay for weeks on end.

Despite their tough talk about the need for rigorous border security, Republicans voted against this critical funding.

Foreign adversaries having direct access to Americans' data as well as the ability to influence this content Americans see on a prolific social media platform represents an unprecedented threat to American security and to our democracy.

I believe that without mitigation against bias, platforms will continue to replicate, exacerbate discrimination that is illegal under civil rights law as well as exclude important dialogue about sensitive topics like race from occurring on the platform.