David Cicilline

I would just remind the gentleman that this is a bipartisan piece of legislation, and the most recent polling shows 87 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Democrats support it. So it is broadly bipartisan all across the country. It is…

I will just end where I began, and that is that this issue about the trust development between the communities and police is a key.

The most powerful weapon we have to reduce crime in the city is not any of our guns or other equipment. It is the trust of the community.

Is it my body has more privilege than a gun?

Thank you. I yield back, Mr. Chairman.

I think we are all trying to balance the very important constitutional values that are the bedrock of our democracy with, of course, your important responsibilities to keep Americans safe, and FISA attempts to strike that balance.

I was a mayor before I came to Congress, and that was very much the conversation we had in response to gang violence.

It is obviously not helpful when we have political or civic leaders in the country that are using language that dehumanizes refugees or immigrants.

My Point of Order, Mr. Chair, this Witness continues to obstruct the work of this Committee by refusing to answer questions.

Your head must have been spinning.

The message would be delivered soon.

You're not going to stonewall me in my questioning.

Is it appropriate for a Witness to refuse to answer a question, and instead demand that we reference and point him to?

Mr. Chair, I request that the clock be stopped while this charade is sorted out.

My question is the propriety and the damage you are doing to a three-year-old child, to ask them to make that decision, to pick a parent.

Asking a three-year-old child to choose between their parents, not knowing if they will ever see one again, is unconscionable and traumatic to a child.

Oversight is also part of our responsibility, so I invite my Republican colleagues to join us in some of the work of actually responding to this crisis.

I would remind them that we have appropriated an additional $4.5 billion to address this crisis on the border.

The President's efforts to curtail the special counsel investigation.

Your refusal to even acknowledge it is gravely disappointing to me.

A concise version of it is the law that is natural to human beings qua human beings.

As Congressman Malinowski well knows, it is the principal organ within the U.S. Government that monitors and advocates for the promotion of human rights around the world.

We recognize that it is a significant terrorist threat.

What kind of message does that send to diplomats who serve our country in dangerous places around the world?

Natural rights, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' and endowed with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.