This is about the First Amendment, and a free press is essential to having a robust First Amendment and free debate in our culture.

it results in tyranny when you give agencies or officials that kind of authority.

I am standing here in favor of this rule. This is an important rule that allows to come to this House floor the reauthorization of FISA and 56 significant reforms to this bill to curb what have been just devastating abuses by the…

We passed this so we don't have this stuff happening to Ms. Herridge that's happening right now.

You wrote stories critical of the government.

It's not just the press that's under attack. Every single liberty we enjoy under the First Amendment's been assault in the last couple of years.

You wrote a number of things, about the laptop issue, about Hunter Biden, and all kinds of things you wrote critical of the Biden family.

You reported the facts. Then CBS fired you. Is that right?

This is why we have to pass the Press Shield Act. The House has got it. Let's hope the Senate and the White House can figure this out.

Your right to petition the government, you want to petition your Member of Congress, you couldn't do it in Congress, because the Speaker wouldn't let you in your own darn Capital you pay for.

The open border policy is the source of the problem. China is the source of the precursors.

We have a DA George Gascon who's like the Penguin of Gotham City. He actually helps the criminals rather than helps the victims of the criminals.

Who better than your local representative working in concert with your State and local officials to discern where this money could best be spent?

We just wish we had more money in order to accommodate those type of things.

The American people know that the border is not secure. It is a full-blown crisis that this administration has sought to downplay for years.

This request is not serious if the goal is to actually fix the problem and secure our border.

the non-detained docket has grown at an unprecedented and unsustainable rate because this administration refuses to use its executive authority to deter illegal migration and mitigate this chaos

This budget is not only full of gimmicks that mask the true cost of protecting the homeland, but it also fails to address the policy driven crisis that continues at the border.