Madeleine Dean

Thank you, Chairman Himes, and thank you to our witnesses for sharing your expertise with us today.

And an important reminder of the important stimulus that we did send out through the CARES Act and other measures, and then, of course, with the American Rescue Plan, and how that cash is helping stimulate the economy.

This is a serious matter for serious people. Mrs. Pelosi did the exact right thing today and Mr. McCarthy, I'm sure, tonight is wondering why did he overplay his hand.

What are we to make of the lunacy of Donald Trump, who thought it was love and hugs and kisses? We should call it delusional, as you just did.

The American people will watch these hearings. They will care what happened. We have now a bipartisan quorum with Liz Cheney. And if we get other Republican members, like Adam Kinzinger, good. But we have a quorum.

Speaker Pelosi said today that her responsibility was to get at the truth. And Mr. McCarthy actually obviously overplayed his hand. She is not going to allow a clown car on a matter as serious as an insurrection that threatened the lives…

What happened on January the 6th -- and thank you for recognizing I was there. It's still -- it's still incomprehensible to me that, that happened. That Americans incited by an American president attacked Americans, using our flag, using a…

His speech is dangerous. It`s sickening, frankly. And even more troubling are all of those around him elected leaders, and now many in his base who are complicit in these lies.

I think it is less safe.

Did it have to take fences coming down to say maybe we need to fund our Capitol Police who saved our lives?

This is Mr. McCarthy who deputized Representative Katko to set up and negotiate with Bennie Thompson the independent commission.

Mr. McCarthy just simply has no credibility.

Not to be furious about, not to be frankly offended by the attack by Americans, on Americans on our democracy on the seat of our democracy and to not want to invest in knowing what happened the facts and circumstances and invest in our…

I care an awful lot about student debt.

Homelessness already costs a fortune in our society, and it touches every district, including my own.

Homelessness in America says a lot about us, and sadly, what it says is not good.

Democracy is fragile. We are a co-equal branch of government.

This was a good day for democracy. Long time in the coming.

I reject the big lie. I think it’s extraordinarily dangerous and for the Pennsylvania Republican legislators who went down Arizona to take a look at the Cyber Ninja fraud of an audit, shame on them.

We’re at a moment of just trying to figure out whether we want to rely upon truth or lies. You know, democracy is not about certainty, it’s about possibility.

I would call upon you and JPMorgan to call upon the Senate to pass the two bills that we have sent over for universal background checks for the closing of the Charleston loophole.

I would suggest, a decision, but also a command of corporate social responsibility.

I would like to ask you a few questions about how your banks are managing high-risk industries like gun manufacturers.

This year has started once again with tragically heartbreaking and unacceptable amounts of gun violence in our country.

What we need first before expulsion is all of the facts laid bare, and let the facts take us where they may, and we will find who is culpable.