I mean, we are upgrading the status of this office, but it is still under the Librarian of Congress.

I still want to--I still would hope for the record that you could give us some thoughts about the--it seems to me we are doing sort of a half way.

It strikes me that is--might be a violation of separation of powers? The President either gets to appoint, or he or she doesn't.

I have run out of time, but if you have thoughts on that, please supply them for the record.

We can do anything we want to.

I was appalled by the President's tweet. First of all, we know that allegations of sexual assault -- I'm not saying that's what happened in this case, but we know that allegations of sexual assault are one of the most unreported crimes…

it seems very arbitrary to me to exclude potentially 85 million Americans from the protections this bill would provide when there is such a clear Federal nexus to act in this area. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 58 percent of…

I ask unanimous consent that I have one minute to respond to my friend and colleague. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I rise in support of the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act, which is legislation that I have introduced with Senators McCaskill, Barrasso, Stabenow, and Cassidy. Our bill has also been cosponsored by Chairman Lamar Alexander and 19…

the discussion today is about the opioid crisis, one of the most serious public health crises I have seen in my adult life, certainly in the State of Maine. It is an enormous problem across the country, particularly in rural areas. In my…

I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moran). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

We need to tell people that they were taken in or victims--innocent victims--of a foreign influence campaign.

I would close my questioning by encouraging both of you to work more closely with academia, with our government.

If you are an inauthentic account, if you are pretending to be someone you're not, you come down.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First let me thank you both for being here and also to express my outrage that your counterpart at Google is not at the table as well.

I think this is critically important.

I hope you're doing the same to educate your users as to the potential that they can be misled on your platform.

I would argue that the heart of free and fair elections is information.