Ben Cline

You're failing to be responsive. You're failing. So, your stonewalling, your noncompliance today is, quite frankly, insulting to this Committee and insulting to the American people who we represent.

As you know, Congress can withhold agency funding when an agency ignores oversight requests, let alone a subpoena.

You would not be here if you had addressed my interests and the needs of this Committee.

Not responding to the subpoena.

The silent majority needs to speak up.

The U.S. Federal Government has, essentially, become a middleman in a multibillion dollar human trafficking operation targeting unaccompanied minors at the Southern border.

The mendacity that I am hearing from you is not just appalling to me; it is appalling to my constituents.

Your policies have directly led to that porous border, Mr. Secretary.

It is truly appalling when you consider that lives are at stake--the lives of children being trafficked across this border who are being sacrificed on an altar of radical policies being pushed by your Department.

Freedom is more important than security. If we give up our freedom in America, we have given up everything.

I would argue that I believe it does pose a real problem within the FBI's conduct toward Americans.

The American people are outraged.

Your report is not just sobering, as you stated. It's outrageous and deeply troubling.

We need to start the process as soon as possible.

The fiscal state of our great Nation is in desperate need of a reality check.

From day one, President Biden has made it clear that he intends to target Second Amendment rights of millions of law-abiding Americans.

Your allegiance is to your constituents. Each one of us is here because of our constituents.

Members of the minority were responded to differently than Members of the majority.

The Executive Branch's suppression of free speech is a real peril to our republic.

We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem, and when we cut taxes, the only way that those tax cuts would contribute to the deficit, or the debt is if they are not matched by spending cuts.

Housing providers and homeless shelters coordinators in my district have expressed concern that concentration of administration of housing programs at the Federal level and policies are not addressing the diverse nature of homelessness.

This is a violation of the Constitution, and I think it demonstrates the neglect of this administration to its responsibilities under the Constitution to protect those rights of the citizens.

I am concerned by this budget request because deficits, as far as the eye can see, into perpetuity is not the way we are going to achieve fiscal responsibility in this country.

It's disappointing to hear that there was essentially a double standard where the majority was getting those documents and the minority was getting nothing during the last Congress.

They've been stealing our lunch money and parading it in front of us.