"The most straightforward way to address this funding gap is to raise the Passenger Facility Charge and index it to inflation."
"I strongly urge your committee to increase the PFC to fairly and efficiently meet these funding needs."
"Every day in Congress, we are seeing the right-wing extremists who control the House failing all of us."
"This isn't governance. It's not working for the American people. It's grandstanding. It's a stunt."
"If this Committee wants to do something about violence in this country, about the horrific losses of life, do something."
"Colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem to have called this hearing to really promote fearmongering or disinformation to justify a radical plan that would effectively shut down asylum to everyo..."
"What I find particularly pernicious is the attempt to conflate the issues of migrants seeking legal asylum through our legal processes with the very real scourge of fentanyl trafficking."
"I think we heard a statistic that only a small percentage of people seeking asylum are actually entitled to it. That is not true."
"In the face of such loss, in the face of something that is manmade and, therefore, could be man-solved, you are hearing that the root cause of massacres across this country like no other industrialize..."
"May not anyone's masculinity be connected to slaughter of children in our country."
"Our children deserve bright futures, not the traumatization of active shooter drills or actual active shooters, while learning their ABC's."
"I'm glad to see that we are taking the recent troubles in Postal Service performance seriously."