Rep. Doug Collins stopped reading his prepared comments during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday to rail against what he said was a “dehumanizing” hearing process.
“Look, I’m going to stop. I’m not going to read this,” the Georgia Republican said as he set down his papers. “You know what is dehumanizing? Is continuing to bring the same witnesses, the same people from the same agency, to talk about this over and over and over again. What’s dehumanizing is doing that and not doing anything about it. That’s what’s dehumanizing. It’s talking about a problem, talking about a problem, talking about a problem, and never putting a solution up.”
“And look, my Democratic colleagues have ideas,” he added. “I may disagree with those ideas, but put a bill up. I have a bill. Put mine up. Make amendments to it. Do whatever you want to do. That’s what Congress is supposed to do. Dehumanizing is this. This is dehumanizing.”
Collins’ discontent with the process comes as various House committees have held a series of hearings on conditions at the southern border.
In June, the House passed and the president signed a $4.6 billion border funding bill with emergency aid for migrants at the southern border.
