David Cicilline

Regardless of the person responsible for these crimes, I think most would agree that they warrant immediate attention by the international community.

I think we are all grateful for your service.

It is logistically and financially impossible to locate, prosecute, and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

We should be working day and night to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded and fully operational.

Defunding DHS will not advance my Republican colleagues' stated goal of nullifying these Executive orders.

The title of today's hearing demonstrates a glaring disrespect for the Office of the Presidency and for this institution's responsibility to conduct oversight that is rooted in fact, rather than political presumption.

The limited legislation that this Committee has considered would make our immigration system even less efficient, less humane, and less able to meet the needs of American families and businesses.

Instead of doing that work, we are holding hearing after hearing to vilify the President for taking important and common-sense steps to prioritize the deportation of felons before families.

But I also understand the importance of funding the Department of Homeland Security and the need to keep our Nation safe.

And notwithstanding the assurances of the court's Hobby Lobby majority, it is entirely possible that a business claiming a sincerely held religious belief, for example, in White supremacy, could justify exemptions from Federal civil rights…

Unfortunately, in my view, the Supreme Court subverted congressional intent and undermined the act's purpose in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.

A particularly troubling implication of the court's broad and unsupported interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is that for-profit commercial entities can now seek exemptions from other generally applicable laws…

I think that protecting investors, it is terribly important to get rid of the joinder provisions...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses for this very useful hearing.

I am particularly concerned that the majority has unfairly singled out the National Council of La Raza...

If the majority really cared about the victims of the foreclosure crisis, we would be holding a hearing on either the mortgage crisis...

This really is a hearing, a misguided hearing, a witch hunt, that has absolutely nothing to do with helping the millions of hardworking Americans

I have deep skepticism that continued or deepening military engagement is the solution and in fact real questions about whether it will in fact make it worse and more long term.

We know that lasting peace will only come about as a result of a direct set of negotiations that ultimately lead to a two-state solution.

Thank you. I thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.

Can you explain why trusts treat claimant submissions as confidential?

Thank you for being present today, and I hope that we will act consistent with the experiences you have had, and do the right thing, and defeat this bill.

Until my friends on the other side of the aisle start to treat immigration reform as something more than a political talking point, we are going to be unable to achieve substantive, lasting progress on this issue.

Seeing that I have no further requests for time, I yield back the balance of my time.

I think it is absolutely vital that we undertake in good faith every reasonable effort that we can to reach a non-military solution.