We do have so much to share in our districts that are similar.

If that is true, where we constitutionally have a responsibility to legislate in DC, where we live here in the community, where we understand the nuances of crime, how is that not true thousands of miles away where we have never been…

We don't have enough fixed wing aircraft to be able to respond immediately to fires that could become conflagration.

It takes too long to remediate after a fire.

We need to speed up the process for giving approvals on controlled burns.

I'm grateful to Senator Klobuchar for convening this hearing because we're here to discuss some really important issues.

If we develop this, this could be another 130 years of exploratory litigation.

dangerous and disgusting

I remain particularly opposed to the idea of granting any new authority to the Federal Trade Commission.

And yet this concept is not foreign to our competition policy. It's not foreign to antitrust law. This is pretty well-worn stuff.

Part of what has left so many of us cynical about what happened with Parler is the fact that Parler was--it had hit its sweet spot.

Unfortunately, the radical agenda of the Biden FTC has made it even harder to find common ground in the fight against Big Tech.

by leaving these important terms vague and undefined, are they giving the game away? Giving the game away in that this would end up being a bill about protecting competitors, not competition, or not consumers.

So 133 years later, we're still arguing over meaning of things enacted in 1890.

I'm against the status quo. I think we should try to move forward with a bill like this.

Congress must act.

I view this element as absolutely essential to protecting due process.

All right. Let's talk about the Open App Markets Act for a minute.