"To use September 11 to perpetuate the scam is especially offensive, especially for a New Yorker like myself."
"We certainly have a very significant challenge, yes, we do."
"I find it disingenuous that many folks from the other side of the aisle often point to budgetary reasons as why we can't have a secure border."
"Should the Department of Homeland Security endeavor to have less alien encounters at the Southwest Border?"
"If there are less noncitizens paroled into the country will there be less migrant crises like the ones in New York?"
"What do you think went through the mind of a migrant from Central or South America, many of whom come here for economic reasons?"
"President Biden should go back to the successful Trump-era border policies."
"We stand together to try to take that entire security fee and return it to the agency that is supposed to be using it."
"I am here today to speak in favor of my legislation, H.R. 1584, the Plum Island National Monument Act."
"If we can agree that relieving you of some of these regulatory burdens leads to more innovation, would you also agree that more innovation allows us to greater outpace China?"
"This is probably the most effective 75 minutes I have had in Washington in quite some time."
"That is a complete, absolute misstatement of fact."