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We need to ensure that American taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly, and I'm pleased by the strong bipartisan agreement demonstrated on this point today.

I remain seriously concerned that you, Dr. Daszak, appear to be eluding questions from this Committee in an attempt to avoid consequences.

This is dangerous, risky research, and everyone involved with that, that I know of, has stated that at one point in their life or other.

We are concerned about global health. We're not trying to throw the baby out with the bath water.

This investigation is not over, and Dr. Daszak, we are not throwing the baby out with the bath water when it comes to advances in scientific research.

Because Congress has a responsibility to ensure American taxpayer dollars are spent in accordance with the law, and that rigorous oversight is applied to the entities that receive these funds, and as the Chairman of this Select…

The First Amendment, five liberties in the First Amendment, your right to practice your faith, your right to assemble, your right to petition the government, free press, and free speech are the most important liberties we have.

We're trying to protect the First Amendment. We're trying to protect the government from chilling American speech.

I want to thank our witnesses for coming.

As Justice Scalia once explained, "It is the very business of government to favor and disfavor points of view on innumerable subjects."

What does the Biden Administration have up their sleeve in these last six months before the election? What are they going to try to censor now?

We are doing something we know not to be accurate. We're going to take that is disinformation from our government.

The implications were huge. Again, the First Amendment protects false speech.

Maybe the most important point is when you violate the First Amendment, public debate gets distorted and when that happens, you get bad policy.

This power belongs to the people's representatives.

Congress should practice restraint in creating more Federal criminal laws.

This should scare every Member of this Committee.

Even for Democrats this should be concerning. Because if it's Donald Trump today, it could be you tomorrow.