"under your leadership, USDA has implemented a series of what I really believe are kind of half-baked proposals"
"We have a skills gap. Yes, there are lots of jobs, but in terms of whether or not people have those skills to do those jobs, that has to be considered as well."
"Well, we put it back in the farm bill, so it couldn't have been entirely under your purview."
"It is important to me to try to understand what your disdain is for poor people or people who have fallen on hard times"
"I am concerned that now you have made her a deputy to go around the process of confirmation."
"That sounds like a problem in your Department, sir. I mean, Congress determined what we wanted to see, and that is what we expect to see."
"You say you comply with it, but you turn around and try to promulgate a rule that is in direct conflict to something we just put in the bill last year."
"If that is the case, Mr. Davis, then I think we need to go back and repeal the tax bill, because I know probably half of the people in this Congress benefited from it, and it had not one hearing. Not ..."
"I appreciate the spirit in which this amendment was offered, but I think H.R. 1 is an improvement."
"H.R. 1 provides greater transparency related to election security vendors."
"The amendment is not adopted."