"It is unfortunate that my colleagues across the aisle refuse to include domestic terrorism as a part of this committee's oversight plan."
"The Department of Homeland Security's grant programs are key."
"The Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act, which I authored, makes improvements to the program and will provide support to nonprofits."
"I think there was a point where we surged ahead of China and had more people incarcerated than any other country in the world."
"There is a place for enforcement, but, you know, I found that we had success with intervention prevention efforts."
"The most successful strategies, I think, are the ones that try and integrate law enforcement along with prosecutors."
"We have got bills here in the House where one of my colleagues has offered, a Republican colleague, offered a bill to eliminate ATF."
"If our colleagues choose to ignore the statehood petition of the people of Washington, there is not much we can do about that kind of moral indifference and contempt for other Americans' rights."
"You have exercised your rights under the First Amendment and the Ninth Amendment to petition for statehood admission, and we salute your patriotic defense of the Constitution and this body, and your e..."
"I urge my colleagues to support statehood for the nearly 700,000 D.C. residents."
"I can tell you that at least in my district in Northern Virginia, we fully support the autonomy of D.C."
"Washingtonians must endure lectures about their unfitness for democracy from other people's representatives..."