Jim Sensenbrenner

One of the constitutional obligations and duties of the Congress is to do oversight.

I guess this shows that we Republicans are not like the Rockettes.

You know the whole issue of sanctuary cities is something that is very disturbing because it is an attempt by those jurisdictions to nullify Federal law and to say that Federal law does not apply in the sanctuary city.

Under President Obama, it was widely understood that asylum officers should get to yes on credible fear determinations...

The government must discourage, not encourage, sanctuary policies and practices.

The Obama administration's policies of catch and release and of rubber-stamping credible fear claims at the border... have left this Nation increasingly at risk.

The Obama administration abandoned the rule of law under the guise of prosecutorial discretion.

Our immigration laws are an expression of our Nation's sovereignty. They are not suggestions.

The past 8 years witness the Obama administration's deliberate undermining of our immigration laws.

I know that, in my district, there has been at least one real, major tragedy where a van of family going to church ended up being hit by a drunk driver and some, but not all, of them were killed, which was a family tragedy that could have…

I would like to ask unanimous consent to put in the record a letter from the Chief Justice of the California State Supreme Court, appointed by a Republican, I might add, to the Department of Homeland Security, asking that enforcement in…

I guess I can say that robbing a bank is a Federal offense, and I do not think that State and local law enforcement wait for the FBI to come to respond to the bank and try to catch the people who are committing a Federal felony in the…

I thank the chairman for holding this hearing, and I thank Senators Grassley and Leahy for crossing over to the wrong side of the tracks to testify here today.

I do have a great deal of respect for you, but I think that there is a heavy hand coming from someplace else.

There seems to be different strokes for different folks on this. And that is what Americans are concerned about...

I think the American public is entitled to answers on this, particularly since we have to know...

Doesn't it concern you, as an investigator, that your chiefs in the Justice Department decided to become an immunity-producing machine for many people who would have been very key witnesses should there have been a prosecution?

Why did Ms. Mills request immunity? Was she hiding something or was she afraid that something would incriminate her that was on her laptop?

I am very concerned that when a fact witness represents a client who might be the target of an investigation there is a conflict of interest.

Who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?

Did she request immunity?

That, in my opinion, is an impeachable offense.

This Administration has made a career or maybe history of basically ignoring whatever Congress wants to do in furtherance of its constitutional oversight responsibility.

How do I tell my conservative constituents that they should increase their trust in the IRS and that what happened to a couple of my groups will never, ever happen again?

I think that one of the things that all of us who work for the government are supposed to do is to engender and increase public trust of government institutions, which isn't going very well now.