"Let me acknowledge--I think it is Sheriff Jenkins--just to thank him for his work."
"In large cities with multiple multicultural communities, it is very difficult to extract information on violent crimes or human trafficking when there is this sense of intimidation."
"So showing up at a laundry with a raid and you have your uniform on, that would spill through the community and keep you from finding the MS-13 or anyone else that you might try to find."
"I don't think we have answered that. That is true, and we need to improve that."
"This is an important issue and I wanted to take a moment to provide you and the committee with my perspective."
"I think it is enormously important for this very important department to have a focused jurisdiction."
"I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD."
"The housing issue is really at a crisis. We have got the manufactured housing on the ground all ready to go and can't move and people don't have housing."
"I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I am conflicted because I am in between Homeland Security, but this is very important to me."
"Mr. Chairman, thank you for convening today's very important hearing on copyright licensing in a digital age."
"the Federal Government is the last resort, the last big spender, and of course a lot of people run out of the room when they hear that."
"we are at a point where the Federal Government has to be the one that either frames or infuses capital into the market."