Trey Gowdy

I confess upfront: my bias is toward public safety.

But all of us also love public safety, and it's so easy to talk about. Buy this amazing device; you will be private.

It is my firm belief that such legislation can be drafted. I do not have language for you today.

These failures highlight the irony of the Administration's misguided immigration policies.

Well, this is the frustration that I face, is I listen to an administration call for additional gun laws.

There is no legal right to emigrate to the United States. It's a privilege that we confer on people, but it is not a right.

If all of that was true, how did we miss the lady in San Bernardino?

We can either tell the American people that our process and our systems are flawed, and that we have missed information that is otherwise available, or we can just tell our fellow citizens, we missed nothing.

So we have someone willing and capable of killing 14 people, and there was nothing in her background that this administration says we missed.

I appreciate--because I hear it a lot from Administration folks, that they cannot discuss an ongoing investigation.

Many of the people I work for are particularly concerned about the prospect of a terrorist being resettled in our communities through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

National security and public safety are the preeminent functions of government. National security and public safety are not simply factors to be considered in the administration of some broader policy objective. National security and…

May I inquire how much time remains for both sides. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Duncan of Tennessee). The gentleman from South Carolina has 2 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 4 minutes remaining.

I continue to reserve the balance of my time until such time as my friend from Michigan has closed.

We are the greatest experiment in self-governance the world has ever known.

You can tell your family it's a terrorist attack, but not the American people.

And the reality is that after 17 months we have nothing new to tell the families. We have nothing new to tell the American people.

That may be smart politics, but it is a lousy way to run a serious investigation.

Now, the chairman said, and he is a very good lawyer, and a good former prosecutor, we have a lot of former prosecutors here on the panel, he gave you a great recitation of the number of witnesses and the number of documents.

Learning about the four people, two of whom you worked with and all four of whom we count as fellow Americans, is worth whatever amount of political badgering that may come my way.

It's interesting to juxtapose Libya with Syria.

I will be happy to help you understand that, Madam Secretary.

I think the President may have said it was a mistake. You have said that it was a mistake.

We are going to write that final definitive accounting of what happened at Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues but make no mistake, we are going to do it nonetheless.

We are going to be writing the final definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues, but make no mistake we are going to do it nonetheless.