"We are working together. My Ranking Member, Jim Himes, and I have both committed ourselves to that."
"Return the committee's work exclusively toward national security and oversight of the intelligence community and to do so in a bipartisan manner."
"We are both the legislative branch. We are a committee of the House, and we are both operating on almost an agency level."
"The president allowed this to go across our most sensitive sites, and wasn't even going to tell the American public."
"The president needs to shift and understand that he has urgent national security matters."
"When this first occurred last time during this administration -- remember, this is the third year of this administration -- they should have been preparing for this."
"This administration does not understand the urgency of taking action to protect our national security."
"What should've happened is the first time this happened during this administration, there should have been outrage."
"Clearly, this was an attempt by China to gather information, to defeat our command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapon sites."
"This was quite a risk by China, quite a calculation that they would take a balloon, put it up in China, take it across the United States where it's clearly going to be discoverable by us."
"This should never have been allowed to enter the United States, and it never should've been allowed to complete its mission."