I think in retrospect that was an unwise move.

We want to be supportive of that, but we also want to make sure it has more than a fighting chance once it takes off to be successful.

If we start with the Constitution of the United States, the first thing we should be concerned about is protecting the sacred franchise of the right of every American to be able to vote.

if you don't want to talk about voter suppression and voter participation, you got to distract public attention with something else.

I thank my good friend from California for his leadership, especially in bringing before us the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019. Right now, in my home State, the Virginia General Assembly is engaged in a big debate about…

I thank my good friend and distinguished chair of the Oversight and Reform Committee. Boy, what you just heard from my friend from North Carolina couldn't be further from the truth. This is not a taxpayer bailout. Quite the opposite. It is…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I salute my partner and friend on our subcommittee, Mr. Meadows. He chaired the subcommittee in the previous Congress, and I was his ranking member. We have reversed roles, but our partnership…

We must look at where our children live and what they need because we cannot go another year with kids not getting food that they need; not--losing parents because they cannot afford healthcare. This is a moral wrong.

It is a privilege to co-sponsor.

Today we commence a series of four hearings that will lay bare the Trump administration's attempts to gut regulations and programs that protect the health and welfare of our Nation's children.

I find it particularly disturbing that this administration fights for tax breaks for the more fortunate while it seeks to take food literally from the mouths of hungry children by proposing to cut the SNAP program.

The idea that someone is poor because they made bad choices, or they embrace poverty as a choice is a very convenient way of ignoring reality.

Thanks for your patience and waiting.

If you read about the Irish famine, which was an early form of genocide, a third of the population of Ireland died.

We hold this hearing at a critical moment in our Nation's history.

I would like to have Mr. McGahn. I would like to have Mr. Bolton. I'd like to have Mr. Mulvaney.

the killing of Soleimani was not an assassination really brings you know George Orwell to tears.

Is it going to be the policy of the United States to take a unilateral action without consultation with Congress or allies?

Look, we can all agree that Qasem Soleimani was a horrific human being who was detrimental to U.S. national security interests, period, full stop.

I have a lot of respect for the ranking member, Mr. Wilson, who is also my friend, but when he talks about praising the President's peace with strength strategy, I would argue the opposite.

It has weakened the United States, not strengthened us.

I think we have heard a lot of red herrings and false intelligence justifying the assassination of a foreign leader.

That cannot be the policy of the United States in this region.

Let me tell you, if that happens, because of who the whistleblower was talking about, we have jeopardized the entire protection of every whistleblower going forward.

A whistleblower who reported a reasonable belief about a Presidential misconduct has become the target of the President's wrath.