"The only person politicizing anything here is you."
"We have to continue to view strength as a peace through strength and security as a peace through strength mentality."
"Less than 2 weeks ago, this administration released a report to whitewash and shamelessly shifted blame about the execution of the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan."
"The administration's continuous denial and downplaying of what happened is an insult to our service members sitting here and throughout the United States of America."
"Unfortunately, to date, we have yet to receive an assessment from the administration on the threat that those released prisoners pose to the United States, our homeland, and to our allies."
"The Honorable August Pfluger, a Representative in Congress From the State of Texas, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence:"
"the homeland security cost of the catastrophic withdrawal, as I mentioned, which resulted in the unfortunate deaths of 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans in an ISIS-K orchestrated terror..."
"I introduced a bill to make sure that there is an assessment of terrorist threats posed by those prisoners, 5,000-plus that were released from those two facilities by the Taliban."
"America, wake up. Look over here to the side, to the colleagues that should be here, to my Democratic colleagues. How disrespectful is it?"
"It's extremely disrespectful of my Democratic colleagues to not be here, to not support those who would put their lives on the line to keep our country safe."
"Chairman Thompson said last year that he would have a border hearing and he never did. Now he's been--he's acting as a partisan agent."
"This conflict is with the CCP. It is an authoritarian regime that commits genocide against its own people."