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.

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 terrorist attack.

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.

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.

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.

America, wake up. Look over here to the side, to the colleagues that should be here, to my Democratic colleagues. How disrespectful is it?

This conflict is with the CCP. It is an authoritarian regime that commits genocide against its own people.

We will meet CCP aggression with strength, its deception with unflinching truth, and its attempts at exploitation with justice.

We look forward to a bipartisan cooperation in this Congress as we all seek effective solutions to combat pervasive threats posed by the CCP to our homeland security.

It is very important that we have a hearing here in the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, talking about the issues.