Greg Casar

This is about ripping families apart, arresting immigrants, and blaming someone for our problems.

The Republican policies of trying to close legal pathways toward migration is the best blessing that cartels could have ever asked for.

The right wing and these so-called Trump border policies have nothing to do with keeping people safe.

Maybe we could be talking about those things if we are going to be talking about sports.

So, I think that this is a really important part of the question.

Instead of talking about how to support all of our youth, especially our most vulnerable youth, people in my state, like Greg Abbott, have used their government power to pick on trans kids.

I want to take a step back and think about the big picture of what we have been talking about in this Committee hearing when we talk about trans youth participating in sports.

We must stop the dangerous, expensive, corrupt, and ineffective political stunts at the border and instead chart a new path for a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system. Abbott's Operation Lone Star must end, and I urge passage of…

The brand was Washington, D.C., not President Biden.

This double standard insults the institutions of Congress that people fought and died to build.

I, for one, am grateful we have an independent judicial system where a President's son or a former President, like Trump, can be investigated and prosecuted if they violate the law.

Negotiating drug prices, it is going to reduce the deficit and save seniors money.

The Inflation Reduction Act passed by Democrats in the Congress signed by President Biden, one, empowered the executive branch to negotiate drug prices paid by Medicare, and two, use those savings to cap out-of-pocket costs.

To me, that shows, and this hearing shows how there being so much self-interest in the system can hurt the patient's interest and that this is something we have to reform at all levels.

We can reduce the deficit and have better funding for our programs if we stick with things in the Inflation Reduction Act and have those minimum corporate taxes.

Those services can be paid for if billionaires and big corporations finally pay their fair share.

The IRS funding in the Inflation Reduction Act, one, improves technology and customer service so constituents do not have to keep waiting for days or weeks to get answers from the IRS.

Finally, under this law, we take climate action, we address rising energy costs, we address rising healthcare costs and hold corporations accountable.

I think back to the very first votes I took on legislation under this Republican Majority, which were votes to cut IRS funding.

The Republican Majority is hurdling toward shutting down basic services for people across the country in just 2 weeks.

I urge both sides of this Committee to evaluate our diplomacy by following the facts and not trying to score political points.

I am concerned that many voices in Congress are irresponsibly trying to block or prejudge diplomacy, regardless of its merits, to score political points.

This is a brutal, radical theocracy that wants to destroy America and wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

We cannot approach this regime as one that you are going to negotiate as if you are in a western bar, trying to make a real estate deal.

The deal itself was baked to allow Iran legitimate pathways to nuclear weapons if they just followed the deal.