As an American, I have a right to protest, because it's being done in my name and I don't agree.

If there's one basic value that ought to unite us as Democrats and Republicans, as Americans, it is how we treat children.

They're not to be treated as subhumans. This is not an American way of dealing with the stranger who comes and seeks succor.

Woman, I am sad my good friend, who I know shares my concerns, feels the need to oppose an amendment that is designed to prevent a very bad thing from happening that has no rationale, has no supporting documentation, and has threatened…

I just want to say to all four of you, I have been to a lot of hearings. This is the bravest panel I have ever heard.

The Merit Systems Protection Board is a small but mighty independent federal agency created by Congress to protect the merit system principles and to promote an effective federal workforce free of prohibited personnel practices. Typically…

Woman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following new section: SEC. 5__. AVAILABILITY OF…

May I inquire of the Chair how much time is remaining on both sides. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 30 seconds remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title XI, add the following: SEC. 1113. LIMITATION ON TRANSFER OF OFFICE OF PERSONNEL…

I am prepared to allow my friend to close, and then I will close. I reserve the balance of my time.

We do everything we can to sabotage the law, and then we are horror-struck there is gambling here at Rick's, that it has an impact on the cost of insurance.

Let's just get government right out of the way, stop regulating it, and prices will go down, and of course, cheating will stop and people won't be embezzled or defrauded with phony credentials or the credits. That logic escapes me.

Lord Almighty. And here I was thinking just we are perverse and the Affordable Care Act just drove up prices mindlessly.

Well, you can thank Mr. Cummings. It took a Democrat to put the Republican chairman's pictures back on the wall. Sorry.

I think he makes a really good point. Two things. One is, aside from even suspicious thinking, and I freely confess we have some of that, it is a complete puzzlement that the FBI could, with a straight face, walk away from a rationale it…

If you will not provide those documents willfully, willingly, we will issue subpoenas to compel them.

it's a reckless proposal that lacks merit, justification, or a coherent rationale.

the legislative branch will not be lectured by the executive branch as to what constitutes a legitimate inquiry.

Yes. That's what I thought.

Congress must obtain the documents necessary to fulfill our constitutional responsibilities. Stop obstructing us.

Thank you, Chairman.

Absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I had the opportunity to go to a demonstration outside of OPM earlier this week, and I'm sure it would come as a reassuring message to know how committed leadership is to its work force at OPM, because morale was pretty low.

We have a total of 524 pages, almost none of them responsive to the direct request we've made.

The Trump administration is currently threatening Congress with the furlough of 150 employees at the Office of Personnel Management unless we, the Congress, acquiesce to the administration's so-called plan to abolish OPM altogether and…