David Cicilline

Ending this moral crisis is a top priority of mine as chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee and a top priority for House Democrats to keep our promise to work for the people and to make healthcare affordable for everyone.

The American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and other barriers to affordable healthcare.

Over the past seven to 10 years or so merger filings have risen by about 57 percent and appropriations in inflation-adjusted terms have fallen by 12 percent.

These outrageous, unsustainable, and immoral costs are ruining lives.

The FBI should notify them when a domestic abuser attempts to purchase a firearm and fails the background check.

For more than 20 years, the Violence Against Women Act has provided really critical protections for women who have experienced horrific violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

It is really unacceptable that VAWA was allowed to expire on December 21 when it became a casualty of the longest government shutdown in our Nation's history.

I think the suggestion that transgender individuals are pretending they are of a different gender is deeply offensive.

We're going to get at the truth, and we're going to get the materials and the evidence we need to find out exactly what happened here and to hold this administration accountable.

If people are going to claim a reason not to produce documents or testify, they have to invoke a legally recognized reason to do that.

We have a responsibility to gather evidence, to bring in witnesses, to make factual determinations, so that we can take appropriate action, as the Judiciary Committee.

Congress, and in particular this committee, has a key oversight role to hold this administration to account.

The administration's reckless approach and carelessness in damaging our alliances, in my view, is making America less safe.

It is alarming how this administration seems to conduct foreign policy in a values-free vacuum.

They seem to have little time for what have been real cornerstones of American foreign policy that you have written a lot about, democracy and human rights.

The practice of separating these families was implemented without any system or procedure for tracking the children.

I reject the notion that we have to make a choice between securing our borders and the hideous policy of separating children from their families.

No centralized system existed to identify, track, or connect families separated by DHS.

It is hard to put into words the practice of ripping innocent children, many of whom are arriving seeking protection and asylum from unspeakable violence, and ripping them from the arms of their parents.

To the extent that we are suggesting that it is, we are misleading the international community or misleading the people in Venezuela.

It would be illegal under U.S. law, inappropriate, and reckless to attempt a military intervention.

Under our Constitution, as you know, only Congress can declare war, and we have neither declared war nor granted the administration the authority to send the Armed Forces into hostilities in Venezuela.

It is not the job of the United States to choose leaders in other countries.

The United States must work with the National Assembly and other governments in the region in a supporting role.

We all want a better future for the people of Venezuela and want to end this manmade humanitarian crisis.