Shelley Moore Capito

You can't exclude communities who have been treated poorly, and that we want to have them treated like the Golden Rule.

I think that a broader view of what is going to bring people out of poverty needs to be taken here by the Administration.

I know I'm probably over time, but just as an example, the Huntington VA is over Charleston.

There's a big uproar in our state and we've already sent you a letter.

Can it be changed? Is it like a BRAC where you come back with another final recommendation?

My state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids.

These are very sensitive issues to Americans who believe fundamentally in the right to freedom of speech.

I think it's more of a case of reconfiguring how the data is presented so we can't have an accurate view.

Recently we saw nearly 10,000 illegal border crossings in one day.

Last year at this time there were those who said the numbers at the southern border were merely a seasonal surge, but the numbers have only continued to get worse.

I'm asking you right now will you commit to providing to this committee within 30 days all the raw data behind this report.

While we have much to talk about regarding the broad scope of the Department of Homeland Security, from cyber to disaster response to transportation security, discussions these days are rightly dominated by the crisis at the southern…

Today proves, again, the ability of this Committee to develop bipartisan infrastructure legislation that addresses the needs of our members and the communities they represent.

I am very proud that we are here with our WRDA legislation today.

I am going to follow up on a topic we have talked about, I think it is about 13 months now.

It's sent all the gates toward close.

I am very proud that I supported the nomination of Christopher Williamson to be the Assistant Secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

We are not happy about the geopolitical situation, we are happy we got more miners to work.

Are more people remote working than there were before COVID?

My state has the highest percentage per capita of deaths by overdose from opioids, very, very sad situation, and it is coming from the southern border.

I mean, I would anticipate isn't the law that if you are denied a claim that you would be removed from the country?

You've put a lot of stock in this in your six-point plan that this is going to have a great effect of expediting the asylum claims and the removal.

The more people that come in puts more money in the hands of the cartels which allows them to up their ability to have a more robust drug trade.

The name in and of itself has, I think, implications to all of us. I heard all about this all over the weekend of concern of sort of an Orwellian, you know, policing of speech.

Today we should also talk about the work the department is doing to protect the homeland from two other threats.