David Cicilline

We look forward to receiving information from the committee, and we will go from there.

It's hard to find one thing this President has done to stand up for America and against Russian interests in a variety of different ways.

Holding that up and threatening not to provide it in exchange for a favor, as the President described it in the phone call, is the worst kind of leverage you can imagine for a new president.

The President discharged the American ambassador to the Ukraine because that individual refused to play ball and was somehow impeding this scheme to put pressure on the new Ukrainian president to interfere in an American presidential…

What we're learning is that career diplomats, individuals who have dedicated their lives to serving our country and representing the United States in dangerous places all over the world expected the President of the United States will…

It's a terrible betrayal of his oath of office. It's un-American, unpatriotic and we're collecting evidence that I think will compel the Congress to take action to hold the President accountable.

This is a tremendous abuse of power, abuse of his office. It compromised the national security of the United States and the integrity of our elections. It was a betrayal of his oath of office.

The President's phone call to President Zelensky was really the tip of the iceberg. That there was an elaborate scheme in which the President engaged many parts of the State Department and people outside the government to advance his plan…

I believe this callous and reckless decision will go down in history not only for its disregard for human life but for the strategic malpractice of placing American troops in harm's way, allowing thousands of ISIS prisoners to go free and…

Ten days ago, President Trump sealed the fates of our Kurdish partners in Syria when he gave President Erdogan of Turkey the green light to invade, setting off a humanitarian disaster and reigniting chaos in northern Syria.

There's nothing more fundamental than protecting the right of the American people to have their voices heard and their votes counted in our elections, and this requires strong leadership from everyone at every level of government.

Thank you to our witnesses for this very useful and important testimony.

Finally, a Fox News poll that shows 67 percent of Americans support an assault weapons ban.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have several unanimous consent requests.

When the ban lapsed in 2004, the numbers of gun massacres shot up, with a 183 percent increase in massacres.

Instead of attacking the problem of mass shootings head-on, we are building schools with curved hallways to minimize casualties from an active shooter.

In mass shootings, 63 percent more people were killed when shooters used assault weapons or high-capacity weapons rather than other types of firearms.

The truth is it was the law for 10 years, from 1994 to 2004. It passed the House with 38 Republican votes.

Had the legislation been passed and signed into law, it would have prevented the tragedies we witnessed in Dayton, El Paso, and Gilroy.

I reintroduced H.R. 1296, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, to address the harm that mass shootings have on our communities and to keep the American people safe from senseless acts of violence.

There is a reason why assault weapons have become the weapon of choice for mass killers. They are weapons of war designed to kill as many people as possible in as short a time as possible.

The people of Hong Kong deserve to determine their own future.

These brave protestors have persisted despite brutal actions on the part of the Hong Kong police.

There is a tremendous and bipartisan agreement within Congress that we must engage the Northern Triangle countries in order to enhance security and prosperity and combat corruption.

I believe that the U.S. must, instead, work as a partner to help create conditions whereby Hondurans, Guatemalans, and the Salvadorans can see a future in their home countries.