"Have either of you ever received an order to stand down directly from the White House or stop enforcing the laws that you are tasked to enforce?"
"I will not let this happen on my watch."
"We cannot afford to have a bill that does to scientists what they fear most: getting censored and punished for doing their jobs."
"My amendment here is very simple. It adds an exception to the bill that ensures that scientific and technical information will not be blocked under this bill as censorship."
"Mr. Gomez. Gomez is aye."
"Musk more interested in attacking journalists and uplifting conspiracy theories than actually running a company."
"The pandemic took over a million American lives, 1,300 in my own city back home."
"The extreme MAGA plan will not secure our borders because they're not asking the right questions to the right individuals about the right facts."
"Their hatred of foreign-born people and their blatant lies have consequences, and it's time that they own up to it."
"If we want to talk about the fentanyl crisis and how it's coming in and what's being needed, we should talk about those facts, instead of conflating all the different issues."
"They will attempt to rewrite history. They will attempt to absolve themselves of any of the decisions they made over the last two years."
"Those insurrectionists were traitors."