Thomas A. Garrett: “If the gentleman will yield, then the question is: Are you suggesting that the President does not care for the safety of…”

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.