"Last week, when we were here trying to create protections for children, so that they could have access to legal counsel--or, so that they would not be deported, even infants by themselves--my Republican colleagues all voted against those protections."
"Unfortunately, this is not a serious hearing. This is a hearing that is intended to completely distort the record, and really, it's strictly for political purposes."
"What I have found is, unfortunately, here in the House of Representatives, there is an absolute unwillingness by my Republican colleagues to participate in real solutions."
"It's not that we are becoming a more violent country per se, or a country that is actually seeing massive increases in crime."
"We are a Nation awash in guns."
"My Republican colleagues all voted against those protections."
"There is an absolute unwillingness by my Republican colleagues to participate in real solutions."
"When you call for the reinstatement of horrific policies by the previous administration, including deliberate family separation, you're not interested in solutions that help kids."
"I am so proud of the work that our country and that our administration has done in order to shore up those alliances."
"One of the things that has been really alarming for me, especially at Fort Bliss, obviously is the suicides."
"I was absolutely thrilled to see $74 million in the President's budget for the railyard at Fort Bliss."