Richard Blumenthal

This research is the very definition of a bombshell.

Facebook concealed the facts.

I think in general, but I'd like you to just confirm for me, this research, and the documents containing that research is not only findings and conclusions, it is also recommendations for changes.

Holding social media companies accountable for what they do to kids was the subject of a Senate hearing last week chaired by Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

Will you commit to ending finsta?

Exactly right, Chris. And not only were they profiting from the destruction of kids` self-image and creating these vulnerabilities or exacerbating them.

Finstas are fake Instagram accounts. Finstas are kids` secret second accounts.

How can we, or parents or anyone trust Facebook?

The only thing that`s unusual about Britney Spears` story is that people are paying attention to it.

I supported the passage of the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act, known as the TRACE Act.

This law has worked in part, not an ultimate answer, but now nearly 95 percent of high-risk robocalls do not originate from the 6 largest carriers.

I could not imagine someone better qualified to be the nominee to chair the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Trump has surrounded himself by acolytes and sycophants who do his bidding and enable him to launch these kinds of improper pressure campaigns.

They deserve to know what we have heard so far, which amounts to a chilling and shocking picture of a president seeking to corrupt the Department of Justice and overthrowing election.

What I`m saying is that the Department of Justice has to take a fair look at these facts and what they constitute in the way of law breaking.

I think that there are very important evidence that have to be considered by the Department of Justice in an investigation of criminal lawbreaking.

If anybody engaged in lawbreaking, they need to be held accountable. We want to know what happened so it never happens, again.

Nothing, in my experience, was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election -- corrupting and weaponizing the Department of Justice, absolutely horrifying.

As a former-U.S. attorney and state attorney general for 20 years, there is a real potential for criminal charges here. They should be seriously considered.

The president of United States then Donald Trump mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal, personally involved, directly aimed at the Department of Justice seeking to break and weaponize it to overthrow the…

But the money was rolling in and they had a choice between the well-being of the youth of America or windfall profits.

Social media is such a powerful tool.

They are not only dangerous, but they are slickly presented, and I am sure all of us have seen them before.

Thank you very much, Dr. Jackler. Excellent.

Thanks so much, Senator Lujan. We are in the middle of a vote, we have two votes, so we are somewhat time constrained.