David Cicilline

In Poland, LGBTQI+ people must live in fear in LGBTQI+ free zones that deny them their very humanity.

Without that commitment, we risk not the rights only of LGBTQI people, we risk not just democracy for LGBTQI+ people, we risk not just the safety and security of LGBTQI people, we risk it for all people.

How is the FBI reallocating this support to State and local partners to address the rise of White supremacists and anti-government groups?

So, my question is, how is the FBI supporting the ATF's recovery of firearms found to be transferred to a prohibited purchaser?

I've actually introduced a bill, the Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert, that would require local law enforcement be notified if firearms are delivered to a prohibited purchaser.

I hope that you can shed some light on what the FBI can do and how Congress can support the agency to fight an epidemic that will claim 40,000 American lives this year.

There's no question that this problem has gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gun violence is an epidemic in our country.

We made clear that the Executive Branch must respect our subpoenas, that there is no such thing as absolute immunity from congressional testimony.

If Congress cannot reliably enforce its lawfully issued subpoenas, our constitutional structure has been profoundly undermined.

It is our responsibility to ask for the information we require to do our jobs effectively, and the Constitution empowers us to enforce those requests if we are at first denied.

I appreciate this hearing coming in the early part of this Congress so that hopefully, before this Congress is over, we can, in fact, on a bipartisan basis, once and for all move ourselves toward a predictable process for discovery.

I believe there is a consensus within the Congress that, in fact, even if we disagree with one Chair or another Chair's subpoena, that we would like it handled quickly and in a way that we can believe is just and not partisan.

The budget requests that we're making answers the needs that we have, the gaps that need to be filled.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for being back before the committee and for your extraordinary work.

The influence of Russia and its leadership under the long rule of Vladimir Putin on global democratic backsliding and corrupt governance cannot be overStated.

I see no evidence whatsoever in the Democratic Caucus or in the Democratic Party of anti-Semitism at all.

There's never any responsibility, you know, the people who refuse to certify the election, despite the fact that they were in fact the valid results.

They moved quickly to remove Liz Cheney from a leadership position in their conference because she had the audacity to tell the truth, to call out the big lie.

This is a person who has said the most outrageous anti-Semitic things, comparing the death of six million Jews to following the public health guidance of the attending physician is an outrage.

Kevin McCarthy has lost control of his caucus.

It's disgraceful. I mean, as you said, it took them five days, it should have taken them five minutes.

Yes. I mean, it`s disgraceful. I mean Kevin McCarthy is leader of the Republican Party in the House or at least he`s supposed to be, but he and Steve Scalise and Elise Stafanik have said nothing to condemn in any way this horrific…

I don’t think there’s any doubt what they’re going to do with this. They’re going to serve, the special interests, they’re going to serve the interests of the former president, not the people of this country.

This is a party now being controlled by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and former president. That is not a party with vision for the country.