Mark Green

Your testimony is vital to the Committee's oversight and to providing the American public with complete transparency and accountability.

Border security is an essential aspect of DHS's core mission.

I intend to schedule the Worldwide Threats hearing this fall, separate from the hearing I describe in my August 16th letter.

The Committee invites you to testify at an agreeable date and time during the week of October 23, 2023.

Mayorkas's passive aggressiveness about trying to schedule us is a smokescreen. That's all it is. And we're just not going to play that game.

We have scheduled the markup for impeachment articles at 10 o'clock AM ET on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.

There must be afforded to the Minority a hearing that the Minority gets to determine because it is an impeachment process.

There have to be rights and due process afforded to the individual who is being impeached.

I have invited Secretary Mayorkas on multiple occasions to testify on the border crisis--including this hearing today.

It is hypocritical to come up here, offer your 'thoughts and prayers' and then leave, continuing to double-down on the policies that allow criminals and fentanyl into our country.

Secretary Mayorkas has disregarded court orders, laws passed by the U.S. Congress, and has lied to the American people.

There is a fentanyl epidemic sweeping this Nation.

As a result of the reckless actions by Secretary Mayorkas, no American is safe.

Now is not the time for us to ease up. Now is the time for the United States to hold strong in its steadfast commitment to ensure that the Western Hemisphere is truly free and prosperous.

Anything that puts another dollar into the hands of the Cuban government will increase the export of that authoritarianism.

Our mission delivery to the American public is the No. 1 priority. And DEI is an Administration priority that fits into all that we do on that mission.

The Department and the Administration prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and it is an important aspect of all we do.

According to our payroll data, 65 percent of our employees are working in person every day.

Get the popcorn, it's going to be fun.

In recognition of the need for a whole-of-Government strategy, the Biden-Harris administration published a National strategy for the Arctic region just over a year ago.

As I have said previously, it is imperative that the committee carry out its oversight responsibilities on the many varied threats facing the homeland.

The Coast Guard is central to the United States' efforts and activities in the Arctic, but its capacity is severely limited by a lack of icebreakers.

However, during my time at West Point, I was taught to view the battlefield through a strategic lens.

We must not lose sight of their prescient vision in our time.

The United States faces a world fraught with peril.