Greg Casar

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.

I believe that it is imperative that we bring home every wrongfully detained American citizens abroad.

I have to say that I have never in my lifetime seen a more activist Court and a Court that is more influenced by dark money than what we are seeing in this country right now, and I believe that it is one of the most significant threats to…

Can you imagine dark money organizations suing to take indigenous children out of their communities? I mean, it does not get much darker than that, does it? Really.

I would like to see whether there might be interest from anybody on the other side of the aisle on us having that kind of a hearing.

Low-and middle-income Americans have high tax compliance rates. They pay their taxes. It is the very wealthiest and the biggest corporations who refuse to pay their fair share.

A 2021 Treasury Department paper found that the wealthiest 1 percent may owe more than $160 billion in uncollected taxes.

If Republicans were truly interested in holding the powerful accountable, we would be holding hearings on making sure the IRS has the resources to investigate every billionaire and every big corporation who cheats on their taxes.

Republicans are not interested in that kind of accountability. Instead, they are interested in trying their hardest to embarrass the President.

It is clear from this hearing that Democrats are pro-accountability, equal treatment under the law, and for paying your taxes.

But instead, what we see from Governor Abbott is punishing people and, frankly, killing people because he is putting drowning devices in the Rio Grande.

I still cannot understand from the Republican Majority why they think that DACA recipients, who are paying billions of dollars in taxes to pay for healthcare programs, should not have health insurance.

The Biden Administration has chosen to stop discriminating against DACA recipients so they can buy health insurance on the exchanges like everybody else.

This does not discriminate between union and non-union workers.

I just think that it is important in this bill to make it clear that, in fact, all workers in this country can choose whether to be a member of a union or not.

But we cannot break the government and then complain about how the government is broken.

Here we are again, another hearing that seems to primarily be about how great Donald Trump was as he campaigns for President.

If my Republican colleagues want to talk about wasteful government welfare that lets people live large, then we should be talking about tax breaks for yachts.

SNAP provides people $2 a meal, overwhelmingly to kids, working people, and seniors.

To be clear, SNAP provides people $2 a meal, overwhelmingly to kids, working people, and seniors.