Why is this bill designed to take away some of the benefits that you claim people are going to have?

I am very alarmed at this increasingly lawless action of the Trump administration.

Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. McClellan for yielding, and I thank Representatives McClellan and Clyburn for initiating this Congressional Black Caucus Special Order on education. Let me just say that I have been so inspired by previous…

Madam Chair, no, 78 million people did not vote for this. Who do you think you are fooling? They are not fooled by your notion that somehow these tax cuts are going to pay for themselves, that they are backed up by all kinds of economists…

Madam Chair, Republicans pretend to care about the Nation's debt and annual deficits, but they have instructed Ways and Means to add $4.5 trillion to the debt to provide tax cuts to the wealthiest. What we have heard from our Republican…

Has anybody gotten the appropriate security clearances? Have they told us what they are going to do with it? What of Article I? We are Article I of the Constitution. Americans elected us to represent them, 300 million Americans, and the…

Mr. Speaker, I took the following oath my 20th year in Congress. I will read it and remind you, Mr. Speaker, of this oath of office: I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all…

What authority did they have to do it?

Why do these people have access to my Social Security number, to my bank account?

I thought it was very -- I told him there was some consolation that he felt concerned about these things, too.

I wanted to ask him, who are these people? What were their security clearances? What information did they take?