Gerry Connolly

If we actually could bring it down theoretically to zero, would be an enormous dent on the debt over 10 years.

We ought to implement your recommendations.

Every dollar we invest in the GAO has what return on it?

Investing in the GAO is a very smart investment.

We are worried about people, bad actors, who are vicious gang members, often from Central America.

Deportation is not, for them, some sort of penultimate punishment or deterrence, for that matter.

But actually there is another record to be told.

So we have doubled them.

We could handle a terrorist and did.

Well, good god, Ms. McWilliams, imagine if we actually elected one a President.

We know that the World Health Organization shows for $1 invested in treatment, that saves $12 for society.

I'm glad you're sorry now. I'm glad you're taking action now. But it's a little bit late for the kids in Flint.

Did you appoint an emergency manager, pursuant to that law?

It is interesting, for a committee that has practiced Alice in Wonderland techniques with management, 'Off with your head.'

The buck stops at your office, Governor.

This is a failure of a philosophy of governance you advocated.

So in November 2012, the citizens of your State rejected the emergency manager law you had advocated in a referendum. Is that correct?

We have to be the last line of defense.

It is hard to imagine a more misleading slogan.

There will now be an entire generation, an entire generation of children who suffer from brain damage, learning disabilities, and many other horrible effects of lead poisoning that were inflicted on them by Governor Snyder's administration.

Governor Snyder's administration had primary responsibility for enforcement under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not the EPA.

This is an abhorrent practice. It cannot be tolerated in civilized society and it is perfectly proper for this committee to call it out.

I wish we weren't doing this now because it is frankly designed to embarrass President Obama.

I would not support any President unilaterally determining the fate of the Guantanamo Base without full debate and consultation with Congress and indeed with the approval of Congress.

I just need to remind you when we were negotiating, when President Obama decided to normalize relationships with Cuba without Congress' consent...