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

Well, as I indicated earlier, as you know, Ms. Norton, Mr. Cummings, the late Mr. Cummings, and I have a bill that would at least allow some administrative action by the attorney until there's a board member confirmed so that we eat into…

hubris and mendacity

who you give the money to... really calls the shots

There is an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue.

the military stifled, suppressed USAID by bulldozing the agency into a clear, hold, build strategy

Imagine, $132 billion.

The story about Afghanistan and the United States' military and economic assistance to that country really deserves the kind of scrutiny you have been trying to provide.

I think it is a combination of hubris and mendacity that anybody can do that.

Well, it just seems to me, Madam Chairman, that this being the third hearing where we all have expressed concern about the zone of privacy and, frankly, informed consent about citizens or noncitizens whose data--in this case, their…

We need answers. Were the U.S. embassies in jeopardy of attack or not?

Nothing that I have seen in classified settings or otherwise has shown me one shred of support for the President's initial claim that there was such a threat.

We are asking these questions because the American people do not want to go to war with Iran.

We need to take back the constitutional powers we have given away to successive administrations.

Congress must have the facts surrounding this assassination. Our men and women in uniform deserve the facts. The American people deserve the facts.

The list of actions that are legally and strategically questionable continue to pile up in this administration.

It wasn't Iran. It was President Donald J. Trump. And that did not make the world safer; it made it more dangerous.

We have got to look at the consequences of doing so, none of which happened in this case.

The ultimate power of war and peace was in Congress' hands, not the Commander in Chief.

I myself have concluded that we are not, that this was not a wise course of action.

President Trump may have infatuation for, as we have seen during his course of office, dictators and authoritarian governments, but we have neither of those in the United States of America.

The assertion has been made here multiple times that the world is a safer place without Soleimani in it. What about the other side of that coin, though?

We are asking these questions because Congress has not authorized war with Iran, as we reaffirmed on the House floor last week.

I think there is a fundamental difference between taking out a member of a terrorist organization and taking out an individual who is an official of a nation State who happens to use terrorist organizations to promote what the State sees…

Over and over again, we see from the Trump Administration a clear disregard for congressional oversight responsibilities as an equal branch of government.