Howard Griffith

We are here today to discuss a very serious problem, one that the Biden administration and the previously Democratic-controlled Congress have avoided talking about for the last 2 years.

Do you think this Committee should subpoena them to testify?

It is on there, right.

I am anxious to do is to start recognizing Congress has certain prerogatives.

You know, my colleagues, you titled this hearing 'Biden's Border Crisis.' Even the title of the hearing is political.

We absolutely need to permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as a class I drug, but FRS has been emergency scheduled since 2018, and fentanyl overdoses have only increased.

It is important we convene here in Texas to shed light on the brutal and unsustainable conditions this President's administration has caused at our border.

As chairman, my top priorities are to ensure the people's House is open, accountable, transparent, professional, modern, and resilient.

Is the Mexican Government capable of defeating those cartels on their side of the border?

I would like to congratulate Ranking Member Kathy Castor on her appointment to that post.

I welcome you all to our first Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing of the 118th Congress.

I appreciate the additional time that the gentleman yielded to me. As you can tell, I get fired up about these issues. The bottom line is that this rules package is the best rules package of either party in a number of years because…

If I caught something, we would ship that thing back to the committee and said, you all, don't have this ready yet.

What this says is if you have got an idea and you really like that idea, get it in.

I think it makes our legislative process easier and better when you get to the floor because you don't have to worry about all kinds of superfluous issues being suddenly raised on the floor with an amendment.

The rule which existed for roughly 100 years on and off in Congress... has made a substantial change and exercised the will of the people through the people's House.

It is one of many steps we can take that empowers individual Members in trying to effect spending.

I wanted to let everybody know that while we didn't agree, he was a good friend and we served in the Virginia house before we served in this House together.

Rather than deflect blame President Biden should consider his own culpability.

I want to thank you, Chairwoman Pingree and Ranking Member Joyce, for what you have done in the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization, now known as the AMLER Program.

I have been disappointed by the agency's disregard of requests for information and documents on the origins of COVID-19.

Members of this committee have sent five oversight letters to the NIH and have not received a response to our concerns and questions.

Do you think it would be a good idea to establish legal criteria?

So if we check back in 6 months, it either ought to be done or pretty darn close? Is that what you're saying?

I believe CSB investigations can have a beneficial value to the industry, but I have real concerns with how this work is being conducted.