we have seen a staggering 83 percent increase in drug deaths. That is overwhelming.

The discourse is getting far too vitriolic and I think that's a problem.

I'm so concerned about the hateful rhetoric that seems to be expanding, which is a lot of vitriolic language.

A game like this can symbolize the fact that, you know, we all disagree on a lot of things, but we can work together.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify about the importance of providing funding to continue to address the problems of opioid and heroin addiction.

Access to Veterans Treatment Courts is a simple bipartisan way that we can support our veterans.

I received my annual health insurance rate increase for 2017 yesterday. My rates went up from $2,500 to over $3,750 per month.

This idea that somehow there is this Republican effort to just drop the thing and leave everybody on the street, instead of the real genuine effort which is to take something that isn't working and try to get it to work better.

We only get 40 percent of the people who are eligible for these exchanges into it. And yet we need about 72 percent to make them work.

I think that gets right to the issue, and this is the whole heart of what is disturbing about the way these representations are being made.

Many seniors prefer to remain in their homes--in fact, they are more healthy as a result of it--to receive the care that they need.

What is being done to look at the cases for those 618? Because in the same case, justice delayed is justice denied.

It appears to me you worked harder in 1 day than the United States Senate has done in the month of May.

justice delayed, justice denied.

These are going to create jobs, they are going to enhance the promotion of alternative energy and, most importantly, they are going to also help us promote better investment and health outcomes.

Why did the Administration allow $100 billion to flow to Iran, in light of this precedent, before requiring that they pay the obligations that they owe to the victims of Iranian terror?

The point of it is though, that he has used this power without certifying why it is in the best interests of the United States to return $100 billion to Iran to continue to pursue terror.

So as opposed to sending excess dollars that are going to support terrorism around the globe, I also appreciate that as a matter of law, families like Mr. Stethem's, law created by this Congress who enticed the families like Mr. Stethem's…

This changes that, however, which creates a class of people, despite prosecutorial discretion, who may be here because the President created that category, not Congress.

anybody who illegally enters the United States is a deportable alien. That is the Congressional intent.

I hope every college kid who is sitting here with their visions of the important world they are playing with social activism... will appreciate that when they are sitting in their dorm smoking dope purchased from these drug gangs.

I think it is very important for the American people to recognize these issues and don't think of them always as just remotely affecting just big businesses or corporations, that everyday Americans, as you said, affecting not just our…

Thank you for holding this hearing on one of the most significant threats to our National and Homeland Security.

I think this is--there is a new emphasis, particularly over the course of the past 12 months, in the American public dialogue on privacy and civil liberties.