He didn't have the it-factor, and he seemed quite boring in much of his media interviews.

Dow just broke 25,000. Tremendous news!

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from New York for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I reintroduced H.R. 449 to enhance counterterrorism preparedness at the local level. In recent years, we have seen acts of terrorism, especially in planning and…

it doesn't make much sense to me that the way to make our voting system more secure and more trusted is to empower the people who have degraded that system to come back and participate in it.

I have every confidence that during your leadership, this committee will be more engaging and transparent and robust in the discussion than we were during the 115th Congress.

I had hoped that at one of our initial meetings we would have been giving powers back to the States in the form of removing cannabis from the list of Schedule I drugs rather than taking powers from the States.

I've just not heard any practical, legitimate, detailed explanation today about what the possibility is that would be justifiable for these kinds of price increases.

Citizens United is giving us a government that can't fix problems because it is paralyzed by corruption.

I appreciate Mr. Buck's concern over voter fraud and would refer him to President Trump's now disbanded voter integrity commission, which uncovered no evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud.

It is clear, Mr. Noti, Mr. Chairman, members of this committee, that the majority of American people know that Citizens United isn't working.

H.R. 1 is a set of desperately needed repairs to the foundation of our representative democracy.

Broken campaign finance laws allow limitless special interest dollars to create a wedge between the American people and their government.

Citizens United isn't working.

Our first priority in this committee is protecting the integrity of our democracy.

Voter suppression and gerrymandering make it harder for Americans to get to the polls and harder to have their voices heard in this Congress.

So we want to make sure to the maximum extent possible that each American when they vote for whoever their representative is has the same opportunity to cast that vote.

The impact that that has is that common sense gun safety measures that have the support of over 90 percent of the American people don't even get a hearing.

Citizens United is not protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans.