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That’s right out of Goodfellas

I did rise to my feet, and I did say to the President: You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.

Mr. Speaker, the 19-century French philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, traveled across the United States in the early 1800s in search of what he said was "America's genius and greatness." He said that it wasn't in the commodious harbors or…

And I gotta say, that’s right out of Goodfellas.

But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you the media have said, we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives.

We will certainly engage in oversight of all the agencies within the committee’s jurisdiction.

I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said, but we should not be in this business. We should denounce it.

It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, yeah, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.

They will silence us, they will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that is dangerous.

Let me tell you what will happen: Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again, wins the White House.

And it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.

I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’

He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.’ And I got to say, that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’ That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something…

Look, look, I like Brendan Carr. He’s a good guy. He’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him. But what he said there is dangerous as hell.

Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again – wins the White House … they will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that is dangerous.

But let me tell you: If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said. We’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives.

I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said. I am thrilled that he was fired.

You just said law enforcement has not laid out a motive. That is objectively false. That is objectively false.