We must send a strong message that these types of behaviors will not be tolerated and will be met with the full force of our law.

It is the only democracy in the strategically important region.

The Mueller Report found that, and I quote, the Russian Government interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion, end quote.

The world is watching, our adversaries are watching whether or not the Congress of the United States is united in our defense of our democracy.

I rise in support of the en bloc package before the committee.

I am proud to support H.R. 3501, our Secure Our Democracy Act, which imposes sanctions on any foreign individual or entity who interferes in U.S. elections.

So, I am intrigued by this idea of both pre-sentence and post-sentence whether or not we ought to require sentencing judges and judges making determinations with respect to release to consider the impact on family.

I think one of the things that people need to understand, one of my most haunting memories was doing a school visit and seeing a fifth-grade boy clearly distracted, kind of not paying attention, and me kneeling down to ask him if he was…

It seems to me 200 miles, even 250 miles is still a very long distance to expect anyone to travel.

In retrospect, when you look back at the effects of these big cases, they loosened up the tech markets; they helped to contribute to an enormous boom in the tech and telecom markets that lasted and has lasted more than 30 years.

In 2004, Google's cofounder Larry Page said the purpose of Google is to have people come to Google, quickly find out what you want and to get you out of Google and get you to the right place as fast as possible.

But the difference is Amazon is a $1 trillion company that runs an online platform with real-time data on millions of purchases and billions in commerce and can manipulate algorithms on its platform and favor its own product.

I suggest that this subcommittee look into an email written by Mark Zuckerberg around the time of the Instagram acquisition where he stated, as has been reported in the press, that the purpose of this--and this is paraphrasing--was to…

The final thing I want to just ask this committee's investigation is extremely important for the economy, for consumers, for those you represent.

I did not at all suggest that TikTok provided robust competition for Facebook.

The evidence suggests that the problem can be traced to changes in policy and particularly our antitrust enforcement that have allowed a few dominant corporations to consolidate markets.

Polling shows that only one in 20 Americans think tech should be the focus of government oversight.

America's independent businesses are in trouble. They are declining rapidly across many sectors of the economy and it's not because they can't compete.