According to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, more than 11 million renter households are 'severely burdened' by housing costs.

I do support increasing our troop presence in Afghanistan as an insurance policy against another 9/11.

if you cut the State Department's budget, you better buy me more ammo because soft power is basically important to the overall cause.

the cuts that Senator Durbin described are real and they will affect the ability to defend the Nation too.

The only thing more expensive than deterrence is actually fighting a war, and the only thing more expensive than fighting a war is fighting one and losing it.

the last thing you want to do is go back into sequestration.

If we are not in Afghanistan, you are going to pay a heavy price because that place will fall apart.

There seems to be, and I think we all owe it. I am a little preachy here, but that is okay. It is my time.

There is not a bipartisan effort.

I think it is incumbent upon us to help you better than we are doing. Let us buy back sequestration.

I think we all owe it to these men and women to give them a little better certainty in what is going to happen in their lives.

Here is what you got for your money.

I worry about losing influence in our backyard. Russia and China are all over the place.

We better talk to Mexico. That is a good idea.

I think the political convergence at the moment is quite good in terms of the governments of those countries wanting to work with us, which has not always been the case.

The MCC is kind of a novel approach of where you basically do a contract with a country.

If you are worried about illegal immigration, I think this subcommittee hearing is very important because we are going to try to address the root cause of why a lot of people leave these countries, try to come to America for a better life.

We have got a more reliable partner in the United States, but they are asking us to change things.

Obviously, there are elected officials in each of these countries that are great partners for us.

If we are serious about Central America taking the lead in its own development and solving its own problems, we have to allow them to do that.

When it comes to Russia, former Director of the CIA Brennan said today that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 election.

Do you think we are on the right track with the U.S. Strategy for Engagement in Central America?

Do you think that the political leaders of these countries, particularly on the rule of law front, are beginning to get it?

But the takeaway I had is that everything he said was that you need to treat this investigation as if it may be a criminal investigation.

It was a good decision to pick a special counsel. A lot of confidence in Mr. Mueller, I think the shot to the body is now considered a criminal investigation and Congress's ability to conduct investigation of all things. Russia has been…