"The real purpose of the executive order was to provide the former President with the ability to dismiss, at start, at least 50,000 dedicated civil servants."
"How many Presidential management appointments are there in the Federal Government in a normal Presidential term?"
"So stipulated, but I am sort of making a different point."
"I continue to believe we have to codify it or we are in trouble."
"H.R. 8334 is just one more frivolous attempt by Republicans to further demonize immigrants and stoke fears about migrants without actually doing anything."
"I want to go back to the danger of relying on Russian and China sources because they have an active agenda of insinuating."
"Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Forgive me for being a little late, but we have too many hearings."
"China remains the most active and persistent cyberthreat to U.S. Government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks."
"The Chinese Communist Party poses a significant threat to the safety and economic prosperity of the United States."
"It is very dangerous to rely on sources like that."
"So, I do not want to put words in your mouth, but I am hearing you say, look, before we politically decide to dismiss something as an inconvenient fact, we need to have some skepticism about sourcing ..."
"When the President of the United States, the previous President, suggested that perhaps the ingestion of bleach might cure COVID, was that misinformation or disinformation?"