
I just want to ask you if you all could go back, work with your attorneys, figure out how to get to yes, not to no.
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I just want to ask you if you all could go back, work with your attorneys, figure out how to get to yes, not to no.

I ask that we do the right thing here. I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table H.R. 3401, with the Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate amendment. This bipartisan bill passed the Senate with 84 votes and…

America leads because of our stance for freedom, for all voices to be heard.

The First Amendment protects Americans' right to express their viewpoints on-line.

My colleagues say no one is above the law. The President refuses to discipline.

Let us no longer our staff to advocate on our behalf. Let us not allow them to share with constituents our views on politics or policy.

To ensure fair and consistent application of Federal laws, I have a draft bill to include employees of Congress under the requirements of the Hatch Act.

We're going to hold Ms. Conway and any employee of the Trump administration... to a very high standard of accountability.

What could be more harmful to the broader community than the restriction of our free speech?

Google and YouTube are developing quite a poor reputation in our Nation. A clear history of repetitively silencing and banning voices.

Today, America is looking carefully at Google, and a word reverberates through the minds of America: Freedom.

So Ms. Kellyanne Conway is the current targeted Trump administration employee. But there'll be another.

This legislation does not live up to the ideals of our great Nation's Constitution. And we need to stand up for people of faith who are under attack in America today.

I stand with all House Republicans and any Democrats willing to put aside politics in the best interest of the people to defend religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities to worship freely.

I hope all of us here can agree that while religious liberty remains a fundamental value, it cannot and should not be used as a weapon to cause harm to others, but rather as a shield to protect the civil rights of people of all faiths, not…

as a Nation, at the local, state, and Federal level, we have failed to maintain our water management systems.

It is time to restore RFRA to what it was originally intended to be.

If civil liberties and legal rights exist only in the absence of a neighbor's religious objection, then they are not rights, but empty promises.