Trey Gowdy

It does look like the decision to release detainees was a political determination and not a monetary determination.

Family is fundamental unit of society. Family is where we go to multiply joy, mitigate grief and share all the emotions in between.

It is vital that we keep those jobs here so our fellow citizens can experience the most basic of all family values, which is a job.

Nearly half of America's top up and coming venture capital backed companies were started by immigrants.

The American dream is in large part inextricably intertwined with our economic competitiveness.

Liz Chesterman was an honors graduate from Hollins University in Virginia. Then she got her Ph.D. in molecular biology. Then she became a patent agent with the largest law firm in South Carolina. And she still wasn't done. At night, she…

I really don't understand not respecting this Committee enough to send someone.

GAO Responses to Questions for the Record

I'm asked from time to time, which is tough for a lawyer to understand the science, and so can you help me understand how we got to this crisis and what an acceptable remedy would be for it?

this is a constitutional issue. And we will continue to stand up for the Constitution.

Do you agree with me that the Constitution means the same thing whether there is a Republican in the White House or whether there is a Democrat in the White House?

this administration has a problem of making end around Congress when they do not agree with what Congress does

What we cannot become is a Nation where the law is enforced selectively or not at all.

The President from time to time... says that he wants a country where everyone plays by the same rules.

We believe in the even application of the law because law provides order, structure, predictability, and security.

In conclusion, and I'm sure on behalf of all my colleagues, I want to thank the women and men in law enforcement for their service, their sacrifice, their willingness to do jobs that either we cannot do or will not do. I want to thank the…

In conclusion, I just want to take this one final opportunity to thank Chairman Smith for his leadership, not just on this particular bill, but his leadership throughout the 2-year tenure he was chairman of the Judiciary.

I reserve the balance of my time and the right to perhaps finish at the end.

I would like to first thank Chairman Lamar Smith. This may be my last opportunity to thank him for his service as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, not just for this bill but for the work he's done in the full 2 years. He has done a…

The politicians set the policies, and others carry those policies out. At least that's the way it happens in this country. It hasn't always been like that. Political leaders of yesterday also led the armies and navies. But in this country…

The security condition in Libya remains unpredictable, volatile, and violent.

I thank the chairman. Mr. Speaker, some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle wish to change the law, and that's fine. They just need to do it navigating this testy little thing we call the Constitution and respect the…

When you have a dead law enforcement officer, the next words out of your mouth are I want to know everything there possibly is to know about how this happened.

I don't care which party is in power. It was about a dead Border Patrol agent and holding the institutions of government responsible for what they have done.

I naively thought the attorney general, as the top law enforcement official in the Department of Justice, was that independent entity that we could trust.