I appreciate the leadership that Chair Rodgers has shown on this, and I love the discussion on permitting reform.

The only person politicizing anything here is you.

They came here today because of the failures of you and your leadership. They came here because they want closure. They deserve answers.

Not a single Border Patrol agent that I have talked to in the past 3 years has said that they trust your leadership.

Mr. Secretary, they are standing there, and I think they deserve an apology from you.

I hope that all of my Democrat colleagues will meet the Tambunga family and listen to their story.

The security of this country is not a political matter.

This is a sad day. America's security has never been weaker than it is under the Biden administration in your reign as Secretary of Homeland Security.

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.

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.

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 terrorist attack.