David Cicilline

I think it is a terrible bill. It saddens me to say that because I have deep respect for the chairman.

The asylum system of the United States was once described as the crown jewel of America's humanitarian effort.

These heinous acts are war crimes plain and simple.

Thank you for your testimony and most importantly for the important work that you are doing.

Thank you, Chairman Wilson, and thank you to you and Ranking Member Phillips for calling this important hearing.

We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had additional ways to hold war criminals…

I think that the earthquake and the Russians' manipulation of the UNSC authorizations of U.N. agencies tells us that the United States and other major donors and Turkiye need to explore large-scale national aid in a continuum outside the…

The 2023 humanitarian response plan for Syria is only funded at 6 percent

The United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012

The humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees

The world has really witnessed for the last 12 years the horrors carried out by the Assad regime against the Syrian people

Our goal should be to prevent crime.

More than that, they brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.

The problem is that you are using this as a political stunt unrelated to real concerns about public safety around this country.

I don't see that happening in Manhattan, and it's caused more people to die.

Make no mistake. If the concern about addressing violent crime addressed by my Republican colleagues was genuine, they would have acted.

If you are serious about doing something about violence, gun violence, and other: ... not serious people.

We stand ready to pass legislation to address the serious issues facing all Americans if our Republican colleagues will let us.

Crime prevention is a serious topic, and it deserves serious discussion, but that's not what this hearing is about.

We know that the timing isn't a coincidence because, as soon as it became obvious that the Manhattan District Attorney was getting ready to charge Mr. Trump with crimes, Mr. Trump's lawyers sent a letter to the Chair telling him to use the…

I fear that you have been revictimized by this hearing because this hearing is not going to provide that change.

One of the things I think that Congress has a responsibility to look at, although we don't have jurisdiction over State criminal prosecutions, obviously, or local prosecutions, what is the evidence with respect to the focus on exclusively…

They brought us here today to attack a district attorney who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure.

My colleagues vote repeatedly against even the most commonsense gun violence prevention measures.

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death of children in America and kills 40,000 Americans a year.