Congress passed the Comstock Act, a law that mandated up to 5 years in prison for any person who sold or distributed a book that was, quote, 'obscene, lewd, or lascivious.'

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), and the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla) are necessarily absent.

I have some serious concerns as far as AV trucking. And I want to be real clear that I am not opposed to it.

We want our schools and libraries to be open and welcoming settings for education, not cultural battlefields.

My big concern is, is that the only ones who will have access are the mega trucking companies and/or those that can make the major investments and that it will strangle the small trucking companies out of business.

And I tee that up to thank my colleagues in the Senate, Senator Warren and Senator Marshall, who have just introduced a bill, which we will be co-introducing in the House shortly, to close those gaps in the Bank Secrecy Act to make sure…

We need to work together as a country to try to create clear standards for access to books.

I also have concerns about how much safety it is that we can actually put in autonomous trucks.

This meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order.

I guess what I am curious about is, do you agree that we need to strengthen the Bank Secrecy Act and fix those loopholes so that we can prevent our adversaries from laundering money, evading sanctions, and potentially funding terrorism?

We now consider 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' to be, in the words of the Library of Congress, a timeless American classic.

Michiganders and Americans, frankly, rightly are concerned about the CCP buying up land and utilizing taxpayer dollars in our States and elsewhere.

We now consider 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' to be, in the words of the Library of Congress, a timeless American classic.

I think that is a positive step forward.

The goal of literature is to reflect back to the reader either the struggles that the reader is facing or to provide insight into struggles that the reader has never had to imagine.

I'm here to help other States make these decisions.

I was confronted with a book banning movement upon taking office.

I believe libraries, in every single community across this country, have had an especially critical role to play in increasing educational opportunities for all Americans.